app to convert Hanzi to pinyin

[JimW]

I'm using Mandrake 10.0. Does anyone know of a linux app available that will convert Hanzi to piniyin? Preferably both GB and Big5.

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Thanks,

JimW

[asharpe]

I just found a web page that will do this; it may be too clumsy for your use, though: http://www.popjisyo.com/WebHint/Portal_e.aspx. I use Linux as well, and the only other thing I have found is a java app called dimsum. It annotates a web page, putting the pinyin above the hanzi. I've had some trouble with it, but it does sort-of work. I don't remember where I found it, but if you'd like, I can make it accessible to you from my web page.

[JimW]

The URL you gave doesn't work, but by searching Google, I foiund this:

http://www.popjisyo.com/WebHint/Portal.aspx

However, the main page is in Japanese. When I go to the English version, there's no real instruction about how to do anything.

I had noticed Dim Sum before, though I hadn't really tried to do anything with it.

I'm not looking to convert Websites, though, just texts. I wonder if that will work?

Thanks,

Jim

[geek_frappa]

njstar 5.0 word processor....

will convert to either pinyin with numbers or tone marks...

http://www.njstar.com/

[JimW]

But NJStar won't work on linux.

On the other hand, I did find , on Erik Petersen's page,

http://www.mandarintools.com/

an Annotater. It's a bit slow to use, because it can only accept a limited section of text at a time, but it is some help.

If anyone else has any other useful ssites to look at, I'd appreciate hearing about them.

Thanks

Jim

[benotnobody]

Concerning NJStar Chinese Word Processor...

You could always try and run it under WINE or some other Windows emulator; or we could petition NJStar until they release Linux versions of their software.

[JimW]

Okay, I got DimSum up and working, then, after a long stay in hospital, I'm back.

DimSum works nicely, but, never being satisfied, does anyone know of anything, useable on Linux, that could convert hanzi to jyutpin?

Jim W

[trevelyan]

*cough*

http://www.adsotrans.com/advanced.html

Outputs tone marks or numbers. Powered by a 117,000 word dictionary that is user-edited and downloadable. Open source.

The online version supports guobiao and unicode. If you download it you will need to convert non-guobiao files to GB2313 first. The GNU program iconv will do this and comes standard with most distributions. If you use it a lot just write a batch-file.

iconv -f BIG5 -t GB2313 -o [output_file] [input_file]

Theoretically, the program should be able to handle any file -- I haven't tried it with non-text ones though.

[fourthring]

The adotrans site is really cool. Thanks! I have been looking for something like that for a long time.

[bluepoppy]

I just downloaded the treeware version of the poptrans software, which works offline. Maybe they updated the English site since you guys last looked because it's working now

[bluepoppy]

http://www.popjisyo.com/WebHint/en/company/products/poptrans/

I wish I had found this before I spent 3/4 years squinting at a dictionary

But at least I have it now... :

[bluepoppy]

Sorry, JimW...but I hope you found what you needed anyway.