RE: ordering Japanese

First, let me thank everyone for their help - this is tremendous as now =
I
understand I am trying to solve a practically indeterminate problem. =
This
whole project has been a great learning experience - very cool stuff.

Second, to answer Kino's question - I'm not sure what the input method =
is
other than to say the Japanese is being submitted via a form on a UTF-8 =
web
page. My input method has been to cut and paste from other UTF-8 sources =
-
hmmm. But in other words, I don't have a hook into that part of the =
process.

Third, so the solution seems to be that I will have the content editors
enter not only the properly formatted names of the stores but also a
kana-only phoneticization (is that a word?) of the store name. Then when
ordering, i will do this based on that kana-only field rather than the
actual name. I believe that should work but please let me know if you =
see
any difficulties with that.

Thanks again to all of you,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Kino [mailto:[email protected]]=20
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 1:01 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Mike Barborak
Subject: Re: ordering Japanese



On 5 May 2006, at 13:16, Kino wrote:

> On 4 May 2006, at 8:12, Mike Barborak wrote:
>

>> If so does anyone know of a Perl module to do this or a nice
>> reference that I could use more programmatically than the image on =20
>> the link above?
>
> I don't know and I'm afraid there's not such a module. To give a
> pronunciation to all common kanji words would require a large =20
> dictionary...

but we should be able to create a conversion script from dictionaries =20
of a Japanese Input Method. I don't know if it is possible to convert =20
those of yours (MS IME?) but there are some free IME or dictionaries =20
for them.

SKK <http://openlab.jp/skk/index.html>
Anthy <http://sourceforge.jp/projects/anthy/>



Kino