Re: nkf

["A.Sajjad Zaidi" <sajjad@example.com>]

Wow, good timing. I just installed it today for someone, although I have no
idea how to use it.

Found another great util.
Kakasi.

It reads japanese text, containing kana or kanji, from standard in and prints
the romaji to standard out.

You can get it here:

ftp://kakasi.namazu.org/pub/kakasi

Sajjad



SN_Diamond wrote:

> Does someone have a readable manual page for the command "nkf"?
>
> I've read a rumor that "nkf" stands for network kanji filter, maybe that it
> translates from one Japanese character code to another.  But when I did "man
> nkf", the output was something resembling raw JIS.  Presumably the output of
> "man nkf" could be filtered through "nkf" in order to produce a readable
> manual page.  But in order to use the "nkf" command for that, the user might
> have to know how to use the "nkf" command, such as perhaps by reading a
> manual page?
>
> I like recursion and self-referential jokes too, but that's not what I was
> looking for when I tried "man nkf".
>
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