Itadaki

Original website. OpenOffice.org extension for the Japanese language. I only provide the unchanged extension compiled from latest sources in the SVN repository. If you want to play games with furigana I recommend my new add-on for Firefox: Furigana Inserter.

Furigana Inserter

Furigana Inserter is an add-on for the web browser Mozilla Firefox. It automatically inserts furigana for words written in kanji. Furigana are small characters written in kana which appear above words in kanji.

Furigana Inserter uses MeCab: Yet Another Part-of-Speech and Morphological Analyzer to translate kanji to kana.

Furigana Inserter includes the ability to monitor the clipboard for changes. When a change is detected it inserts the text in the clipboard into the browser page and inserts furigana in it.

Furigana Inserter can also look up words in a dictionary and display a translation in a popup menu. The Rikaichan add-on is required for this to work.

Furigana Inserter is licensed under the GPL. Source code is included in the extension. Source code for MeCab is available from MeCab's home page.

Requirements

• Windows OS. Currently Furigana Inserter only works on the Windows OS. I have only tested it on Windows XP SP3.
• Mozilla Firefox. Requires version 3.0 or higher.
• HTML Ruby add-on for Firefox. Furigana Inserter requires the HTML Ruby add-on in order to display furigana above kanji words. Version 4.43 or higher recommended. If you use Firefox 3.5, then you may have noticed, that HTML Ruby 5.11.3 reacts slowly especially on large web pages. Version 5.11.3 and higher have a bug. I have put a version on the download page, that fixes this bug.
• Furigana Inserter requires the dictionary add-on to work. See TipsandTricks#How_to_install_the_dictionary for installation information.

Recommended Software

• Rikaichan is a Japanese-English dictionary add-on for Firefox. It is required if you want Furigana Inserter to look up words in the dictionary and to display a translation in a popup menu.
• JWPCE is a great free Japanese Word Processor for Windows XP. It has a lot of useful features for students of the Japanese language.
• AGTH is a program for capturing text from running programs. You can use to copy the text from Japanese computer games into the clipboard.

You can contact me at zorkzero@hotmail.com .