c2t - translates GB/Big5 encoding to tone pinyin et al (chinese)
c2t [-D dictionary] [-k|c file_name] [-m]
Translates from stdin chinese characters to stdout by default in pinyin.
Programmed by Tommi Kaikkonen (tommi@phoenix.oulu.fi) in 1992.
Improved by Katya Ta (ta_k@maths.su.oz.au).
- -D dictionary
- Seems to work fine for gb & big5 dictionaries with the corresponding
input. Default: /usr/sbin/lib/cxterm/dicts/TONEPY.tit
- -k
- Keep - keep any characters not found ie. print them to stdio. Default:
displays ???
- -c file_name
- Character file of not found characters; not with -k!
- -m
- Multisearch - displays all possible matches of characters instead of just
the first match.
hz2gb < hzfile | c2t | cless
c2t < gbfile > pinyinfile
- Used as translation dictionnary. Configured in c2t.c DICT string.
- Other dictionaries can be used instead of the default one with the command
line switch -D dictionary_file_name.