Comment # 16 on bug 1162654 from Wolfgang Bauer

(In reply to Christophe Giboudeaux from comment #15)
> (In reply to Wolfgang Bauer from comment #12)
> > Downloading radkfile from kiten's git repository and copying it to
> > ~/.local/share/kiten/ does seem to fix the radical selector.
> 
> Interesting, the file from the edict package is UTF-8 and the file in the
> kiten repository is ISO-8859

Yes, converting edict's files to EUC-JP encoding seems to fix things as well.
But it still looks different than in the Gentoo screenshots (might not be a
problem though, I suppose the files are a newer version).

The reason why it cannot read the UTF-8 encoded files, is probably this code in
lib/DictEdict/dictfileedict.cpp and DictKanjidic/dictfilekanjidic.cpp:
  QTextStream fileStream( &file );
  fileStream.setCodec( QTextCodec::codecForName( "eucJP" ) );

But if we patch this, we'd break the update functionality in kiten I suppose.