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 languages 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 (%d1%8c), '' for tverdyj-znak (%d1%8a) yo for %d1%91, j for i-kratkaya (%d0%b9).

ctl-L

Greek.

FILES

/dev/kbd

SOURCE

/sys/src/cmd/ktrans

SEE ALSO

8½(1)

BUGS

Considerably more sophistication is required to support ideographic languages properly.

There is no way to generate the control characters literally.