https://github.com/loretoparisi/kakasi

KAKASI - Kanji Kana Simple Inverter (code mirror)
https://github.com/loretoparisi/kakasi

japanese kana kanji transliterate-japanese transliterator

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KAKASI - Kanji Kana Simple Inverter (code mirror)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/loretoparisi/kakasi
• Owner: loretoparisi
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-10-17T13:10:56.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-07-30T09:46:52.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-08T19:33:08.405Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: japanese, kana, kanji, transliterate-japanese, transliterator
• Language: C
• Size: 1.25 MB
• Stars: 36
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 7
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • Changelog: ChangeLog
  • License: COPYING
  • Authors: AUTHORS

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README

        
				KAKASI

      the language processing filter to convert Kanji characters

		   to Hiragana, Katakana or Romaji

KAKASI is the language processing filter to convert Kanji characters

to Hiragana, Katakana or Romaji(1) and may be helpful to read Japanese

documents.

The name "KAKASI" is the abbreviation of "kanji kana simple

inverter" and the inverse of SKK "simple kana kanji converter" which

is developed by Masahiko Sato at Tohoku University. The most entries

of the kakasi dictionary is derived form the SKK dictionaries.  If you

have some interests in the naming of "KAKASI", please consult to

Japanese-English dictionary. :-)

The kit of KAKASI includes C programs and Several kind of

dictionaries. The large dictionary "kakasidict" may be provided as

another file "kakasidict.YYMMDD.gz" since it is often revised and

really LARGE.

 (1) "Romaji" is alphabetical description of Japanese pronunciation.

KAKASI is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)

any later version.

KAKASI is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

GNU General Public License for more details.

See the file NEWS for a list of major changes in the current release.

See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.

You can get the latest KAKASI from

	ftp://kakasi.namazu.org/pub/kakasi/

You can get information about KAKASI from

	http://kakasi.namazu.org/

Mail comments and bug reports to

	[email protected]

in Japanese or English.