Chinese Char Converter

About this program

This program will show you the Chinese Mandarin, Cantonese pronounciation and Cangjie key sequence. Supported languages and data are as following.

• Chinese Mandarin (Putonghua 普通话,) Pinyin 拼音 : Simplified and Traditional
• Cantonese Yale Pinyin: Simplified and Traditional
• Simplified/Traditional character conversion (also from Japanese Kanji is supported)
• Cangjie Traditional Chinese characters strokes. It's used to input Traditional Chinese characters.

Original data is from UniHan DB of unicode.org

How to use it

This package includes 3 ruby scripts and 1 html file.

• mk_unihan_db.rb : generate character conversion table from UniHan DB. Files of UniHan should be stored in data/ directory. This program will generate unihan.hdb .
• print_unihan_reading.rb : command line program to convert chinese characters. It uses unihan.hdb which generated from mk_unihan_db, input from STDIN.
• print_unihan_reading.rb CGI program to convert chinese characters. It uses unihan.hdb which generated from mk_unihan_db, input from STDIN.
• index.html input form and kick print_unihan_reading.cgi .

Sample Page

Please visit http://masaru.org/ctp/