A while ago, I downloaded the text version of the Dialects of China project,
which derives most of it's data from Hanyu Fangyin Zihui, a list of readings
of 2700 characters across almost 20 dialects. I've converted the file and
zipped it up. Unzipped it is 5105 kilobytes, zipped it is 460 kb. The
original file docmas9.txt was over 55000 lines long. A bit of programming
went a long way.

http://www.dylanwhs.ukgateway.net/download/doc.htm

Also needs Big5 fonts, plus a font to display IPA characters like "lucida
sans unicode".

Cheers,
Dyl.


Nice work.

http://www.dylanwhs.ukgateway.net/download/doc.htm

Thanks, but the credit goes to DOC for making it so easy to manipulate
their
txt format. Looks like a four or five fold increase in size with all the
HTML tags. There are several entries where the tone of a character is
marked
as X
and the yin-yang split is given as H. I'm still investigating as to what
this refers to. The X H data isn't confined to one dialect perhaps some
folks in the know can shed some light on this...