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Subject: Re: [9front] ktrans
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hi ori,

> Is this japanese-only? Does it work for other languages?

it supports input for english (passthrough/no processing), japanese
(hiragana, katakana and kanji), russian, greek and korean.

> How hard is it to set up? The last tutorial I saw for it
> made it look like a pain, and I'm wondering if this patch
> makes it any better. If not, what work would we want to
> do on it?

it needs to run before a rio session.  you can either set it up on a
sub-rio running `@{ktrans; rio}` on a window, or put it on a line
right before starting rio in your $home/lib/profile.  i'm thinking
these could be handy to have as examples in the man page, since it
isn't really obvious how you are supposed to get it running from the
current docs.

> I see some large hard-coded tables, as well as some dicts
> and scripts to generate dicts. Can we replace the dicts
> with scripts?

i think so, yeah.  the kanji.jisho is an adaptation of the libskk
dicts, the medium sized one to be more precise.  i will try to figure
out the transformation Okamoto did and set up an automated fetch
script to pull them directly from the github.com/skk-dev/dict repo and
apply the filtering.  users could then go to /lib/ktrans, and do
`grabdict [small|medium|large]` based on their preferences.  it could
also be worth shipping with the small jisho, which is 54KB vs.  the
141KB medium one.


i'll update the thread once i get all of the above done.


thanks!

-rodri