PYKAKASI documentation
This is the documentation for Pykakasi library and utility. pykakasi is a library and utility implemented KAKASI functionality in Python. KAKASI was originaly built to convert Japanese text to roman form.
pykakasi is a free software, and available on GitHub project.
wakati is an implementation of kakasi’s wakati gaki option.
- Command Line Options
Command line options
- Programming Interface
Application programming interface and options
- Pykakasi authors
PyKAKASI authors and credits
- Copyright and License
Copyright and license
- Table of contents
Access to all of document contents
Supported python versions
Pykakasi supports python 2.7, python 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 and PyPy.
It may work with python 2.6, 3.3, 3.4 and pypy3 but these are not tested now.
Dependency
It depends on klepto for providing a mapping database.
About KAKASI
KAKASI is the language processing filter to convert Kanji characters to Hiragana, Katakana or Romaji 2 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. :-)
Copyright and License
Copyright 2010-2019 Hiroshi Miura <miurahr@linux.com>
This program 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 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program 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.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Table of contents
- Programming Interface
- Command Line Options
- Pykakasi authors
- Contribution guide
- PyKakasi ChangeLog
- PyKakasi ChangeLog before v1.0
- v2.0.0 (31, May. 2020)
- v2.0.0b1 (9, May. 2020)
- v2.0.0a6 (30, Mar. 2020)
- v2.0.0a5 (23, Mar. 2020)
- v2.0.0a4 (20, Mar. 2020)
- v2.0.0a3 (18, Mar. 2020)
- v2.0.0a2 (16, Mar. 2020)
- v2.0.0a1 (14, Mar. 2020)
- v1.2 (26, Sep, 2019)
- v1.1 (16, Sep, 2019)
- v1.1b2 (14, Sep, 2019)
- v1.1b1 (6, Sep, 2019)
- v1.1a1 (8, Jul, 2019)
- v1.0-rc1 (29, June, 2019)
- v0.96 (12, June, 2019)
- v0.95 (8, June, 2019)
- v0.94 (16, Feb, 2019)
- v0.93 (3, May, 2018)
- v0.92 (30, Apr., 2018)
- v0.91 (29, Apr., 2018)
- v0.90 (29, Mar., 2018)
- v0.83 (29, Mar., 2018)
- v0.82 (29, Mar., 2018)
- v0.80 (28, Mar., 2018)
- v0.28 (26, Mar., 2018)
- v0.26 (26, Mar., 2018)
- v0.25 (25, Mar., 2018)
- v0.23 (25, May., 2014)
- v0.22 (3, May., 2014)
- v0.21 (27, April., 2014)
- v0.20 (27, April., 2014)
- Version 0.10 (25, April, 2014)
Indices and tables
Footnotes
- 2
“Romaji” is alphabetical description of Japanese pronunciation.