# $Id: README,v 2.0 2003/05/22 18:19:11 dankogai Exp $

About this module
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This module provides interface to kakasi (kanji kana simple inverter).
kakasi is a set of programs and libraries which does what Japanese
input methods do in reverse order.  You feed Japanese and kakasi
converts it to phonetic representation thereof.  kakasi can also be
used to tokenizing Japanese text. To find more about kakasi, see
<http://kakasi.namazu.org/> .

How to install
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0.  Make sure you have kakasi installed.  Here is a typical
installation procedure.

% gzip -dc kakasi-(version).tar.gz | tar xvf -
% cd kakasi-2.3.4
% ./configure
% make
% su make install

There are also many ports/packages available for many platforms.
Consult the documents of your platform.

1.  Install this module.

% gzip -dc Text-Kakasi-(version).tar.gz | tar xvf -
% cd Text-Kakasi-(version)
% perl Makefile.PL
% make
% make test
% make install

1a. Install this module via CPAN

% perl -MCPAN -e 'install Text::Kakasi'

How to use
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See perldoc Text::Kakasi.

Copyright
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(C) 1998, 1999, 2000 NOKUBI Takatsugu <knok@daionet.gr.jp>
(C) 2003 Dan Kogai <dankogai@dan.co.jp>

There is no warranty for this free software. Anyone can modify and/or
redistribute this module under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. See COPYING
file that is included in the archive for more details.