Re: [9front] ktrans

[ori@eigenstate.org]

Quoth rgl@antares-labs.eu:
> this is a new version of ktrans(1), originally written by Kenji
> Okamoto, that includes modifications by:
> 
> 	- cinap: to work with kbdfs(8) instead of pipefile(1) (could've done more work i can't track)
> 	- BurnZeZ: naming corrections and proper argument handling
> 	- romi: support for korean and shortcuts that play nice with sam and rc
> 
> i cleaned up the code a bit, corrected some comments (mostly typos)
> and adapted the man page to reflect the aforementioned changes.
> 
> romi also made a nice little tool to extend the kanji.jisho Kenji
> prepared—in case 7.5K kanjis aren't enough for you.  you can find it
> at
> https://git.sansfontieres.com/~romi/ktrans/tree/front/item/contrib/kanjimerge.
> 
> 
> is it OK to commit?

I like the idea of shipping with kanji support, but I'm not in a position
to know whether this is any good, or if it needs any work.

A few questions:

	- Is this japanese-only? Does it work for other languages?
	- 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?
	- I see some large hard-coded tables, as well as some dicts
	  and scripts to generate dicts. Can we replace the dicts
	  with scripts?