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- 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
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- ftp://kakasi.namazu.org/pub/kakasi/
-
- You can get information about KAKASI from
-
- http://kakasi.namazu.org/
-
- Mail comments and bug reports to
-
- bug-kakasi@namazu.org
-
- in Japanese or English.
-