Re^4: Once again, Kakasi

"Yes... "is that good or is it whack?" :-) What, exactly is the problem: "

Obviously, it is whack. As stated in the other thread the main objective of the program is to take a kanji and break it down phonetically into hiragana or katakana, inputting an EUC-encoded kanji and receiving the exact same EUC-encoded kanji in the output is (I falsely assumed obviously) not good. I understand now though that if you're browser isn't set to EUC encoding you might not see what the character holds.

"which appears to have some useful answers already"
Not really. I understand that I miss encoded the post so after my initial post, it might've been hard to understand that kakasi was returning the exact same thing it was given... even though I typed it in there. I think I did a fairly good job of explaining that in my reply.

The only other reply was given by lestrrat, which didn't tell me much. I guess I need to go out of my way to point out what strings are encoded in what.

And BTW - I used Text::Chasen and solved my issue completely. Thanks for everyone's time.

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Re^5: Once again, Kakasi by graff (Chancellor) on Aug 01, 2005 at 04:56 UTC
I guess I need to go out of my way to point out... Exactly. (Funny thing, I didn't get anything that looked like Japanese Kanji on that previous OP until I set my browser to Shift-JIS -- and of course, I had no way of knowing whether I was looking at the intended Japanese characters.) Then there's the sad but unavoidable fact that, in this international community of Perl programmers, relatively few understand what it means to convert from Kanji to Katakana or Hiragana. So you would need to go out of your way a bit on that as well, to explain what the expected output should have been. Text::Kakasi looks like it might be useful (notice that I used [cpan://Text::Kakasi] in my post to make that link), and I'll remember it the next time I need to do something with Japanese (I hope it'll work for me better than it did for you); but I think I can speak for a lot of monks when I say I never heard of it before your post. Now, you say your problem is solved, but I'm still puzzled. What is "Text::Chasen"? I looked for it on CPAN but found nothing by that name.	[reply]

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Re^5: Once again, Kakasi
by graff (Chancellor) on Aug 01, 2005 at 04:56 UTC

I guess I need to go out of my way to point out...

Exactly. (Funny thing, I didn't get anything that looked like Japanese Kanji on that previous OP until I set my browser to Shift-JIS -- and of course, I had no way of knowing whether I was looking at the intended Japanese characters.)

Then there's the sad but unavoidable fact that, in this international community of Perl programmers, relatively few understand what it means to convert from Kanji to Katakana or Hiragana. So you would need to go out of your way a bit on that as well, to explain what the expected output should have been.

Text::Kakasi looks like it might be useful (notice that I used [cpan://Text::Kakasi] in my post to make that link), and I'll remember it the next time I need to do something with Japanese (I hope it'll work for me better than it did for you); but I think I can speak for a lot of monks when I say I never heard of it before your post.

Now, you say your problem is solved, but I'm still puzzled. What is "Text::Chasen"? I looked for it on CPAN but found nothing by that name.

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