KTRANS(1) General Commands Manual KTRANS(1)
NAME
ktrans - language transliterator
SYNOPSIS
ktrans
DESCRIPTION
The ktrans program installs itself between the keyboard and /dev/cons and transliterates typed letter sequences into characters in lan-
guages that do not use the Latin character set. The language is selected by typing a control character:
ctl-E return to default English mode (no transliteration).
ctl-G Japanese hiragana: interpret lower-case letters as a Hepburn representation of hiragana. In this mode, typing ctl-T looks up the
last `word' in a hiragana-kanji dictionary and replaces it. Subsequent ctl-T characters cycle through the possibilities. A word is
the longest immediately preceding unbroken string of hiragana characters.
ctl-K Japanese katakana.
ctl-R Russian: interpret letters as Cyrillic; the transliteration is mostly phonetic, with ' for myagkij-znak (), '' for tverdyj-znak ()
yo for , j for i-kratkaya ().
ctl-L Greek.
FILES
/dev/kbd
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/ktrans
SEE ALSO
81/2(1)
BUGS
Considerably more sophistication is required to support ideographic languages properly.
There is no way to generate the control characters literally.
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