Hi, At Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:15:09 -0400, Maiorana, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you know of any non-graphical input support for japanese? As Mike said, there are several softwares. Indeed, I am using GNU Emacs to input Japanese via ssh login. > I was wondering if such software exists: > > - a text-terminal (non X, non-gui) japanese input method system There are no such text-terminals which do both of display and input. Kon2 is a Linux Kanji Console, which enables *display* of Japanese (EUC-JP or Shift_JIS) but it doesn't have input ability of Japanes. Jfbterm is a Linux Framebuffer Multilingual Console based on ISO-2022. However, it also doesn't have input ability of Japanese. On the other hand, there are several Japanese-input wrapper on tty. Uum for Wnn, Canuum for Canna, and Skkfep for SKK. Since they are tty softwares, they themselves don't have display ability. They owe it to the terminal. > - a batch kanji picker: > its easy to take a quantity of roomaji and turn them > into > kana, but is there a command line tool, or anything > which > could take kana and produce kanji's? Impossible, because various kanji can be candidates for same kana. (Possible, with interaction with users. Display these candidates and let the user choose one. Conversion process needs more work, because it has to divide series of letters into words. This work needs grammatical analysis. You know, Japanese language doesn't use whitespace to separate words.) --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
