kanji

How do you draw kanji using Mac OS X 10.5

I want to be able to draw in Kanji like you can with IME in Windows. Anyone know how? ...

How to parse kanji numeric characters using ICU?

I'm writing a function using ICU to parse an Unicode string which consists of kanji numeric character(s) and want to return the integer value of the string. "五" => 5 "三十一" => 31 "五千九百七十二" => 5972 I'm setting the locale to Locale::getJapan() and using the NumberFormat::parse() to parse the character string. However, whenever I pass...

What lucene analyzer can be used to handle Japanese text?

Good day, Which lucene analyzer can be used to handle Japanese text properly? It should be able to handle Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, Romaji, and any of their combination. Thanks, Franz ...

Algorithm for OCR and Kanji Symbols

I have a friend that is starting up a new project. He wants to be able to use some sort of OCR in order to detect and translate Kanji symbols into other languages. He has hit a bit of a brick wall in finding available algorithms in order to do so, since these symbols are a bit more complex than the English characters that we're used to...

Grab Kanji webpage using Nokogiri

Hi, I would like to grab a kanji table on a Wikipedia page and I have a trouble using Nokogiri with special char. Here is my script: # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*- require 'rubygems' require 'nokogiri' require 'open-uri' link = 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_j%C5%8Dy%C5%8D_kanji' doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(link)) doc.encoding = 'U...

How do I use Unicode Character Combining with Kanji/Hanzi ?

I'm trying to find a workaround to display old and rare characters in unicode using character combining. Currently I'm converting some dictionaries from EPWING into text and there are 36 different characters which cannot be reproduced using normal UTF-8. Below is the problem section of the epwing gaiji to unicode mappings for one of the ...

How to display japanese Kanji inside a cmd window under windows?

I have an english Windows 2003 server with asiatic language support activated. The two only fonts available for the command window (cmd settings) are raster and lucida console. Neither the one nor the other display the Kanji correctly (displayed as question mark). Is there a solution to get them displayed? Is there some transformation ...