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- *This document is a simple guide for non Japanse people to use Anthy.
-
- *Correction for my poor English is welcome.
- *Many part of this document is not yet written.
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- *How to INSTALL
- *Why conversion system?
- *How to USE
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- *How to INSTALL
- You can use .rpm or .deb to install Anthy.
- You also can install Anthy from source package
- $ ./configure; make ;make install
- shared libraries, utility commands, and grammer definition
- files will be installed.
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- *Why conversion system?
- Japanese text contains both phonetic characters and
- ideographic characters. There are two classes of phonetic
- symbols, Hiragana and Katakana. Ideographic
- symbol in Japanese is called Kanji.
- Japanese also uses English alphabet to type an
- unix command, to write a program and so on,
- thus generally input method systems have ability
- to enable or disable itself easily.
-
- Class of characters in Japanese texts.
- With Japanese input method enabled
- -phonetic character
- -ideographic character
- With Japanese input method disabled
- -English(Latin) character
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- *How to USE
- Anthy's conversion system is implemented as a library,
- so you should use a software (e.g. XIM server to input on
- an X application) which uses the library.
- This package contains an utility command and Emacs lisp files
- to use Anthy from Emacs.
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