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1.1       root        1: .TH KTRANS 1
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: ktrans \- language transliterator
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: .B ktrans
                      6: .SH DESCRIPTION
                      7: The
                      8: .I ktrans
                      9: program installs itself between the keyboard and
                     10: .B /dev/cons
                     11: and transliterates typed letter
                     12: sequences into characters in languages that do not use the Latin character set.
                     13: The language is selected by typing a control character:
                     14: .TP
                     15: .B ctl-E
                     16: return to default English mode (no transliteration).
                     17: .TP
                     18: .B ctl-G
                     19: Japanese hiragana:
                     20: interpret lower-case letters as a Hepburn representation
                     21: of hiragana.
                     22: In this mode, typing
                     23: .B ctl-T
                     24: looks up the last `word' in a hiragana-kanji dictionary
                     25: and replaces it.
                     26: Subsequent
                     27: .B ctl-T
                     28: characters cycle through the possibilities.
                     29: A word is the longest immediately preceding
                     30: unbroken string of hiragana characters.
                     31: .TP
                     32: .B ctl-K
                     33: Japanese katakana.
                     34: .TP
                     35: .B ctl-R
                     36: Russian: interpret letters as Cyrillic;
                     37: the transliteration is mostly phonetic, with
                     38: .B '
                     39: for
                     40: .IR myagkij-znak
                     41: (ь),
                     42: .B ''
                     43: for
                     44: .I tverdyj-znak
                     45: (ъ)
                     46: .I yo
                     47: for ё,
                     48: .B j
                     49: for
                     50: .IR i-kratkaya
                     51: (й).
                     52: .TP
                     53: .B ctl-L
                     54: Greek.
                     55: .PP
                     56: .SH FILES
                     57: .B /dev/kbd
                     58: .SH SOURCE
                     59: .B /sys/src/cmd/ktrans
                     60: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     61: .IR 8½ (1)
                     62: .SH BUGS
                     63: Considerably more sophistication is required to support
                     64: ideographic languages properly.
                     65: .PP
                     66: There is no way to generate the control characters literally.

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