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     NAME
          ktrans - language transliterator

     SYNOPSIS
          ktrans

     DESCRIPTION
          The ktrans program installs itself between the keyboard and
          /dev/cons and transliterates typed letter sequences into
          characters in languages that do not use the Latin character
          set.  The language is selected by typing a control charac-
          ter:

          ctl-E
               return to default English mode (no transliteration).

          ctl-G
               Japanese hiragana: interpret lower-case letters as a
               Hepburn representation of hiragana.  In this mode, typ-
               ing ctl-T looks up the last `word' in a hiragana-kanji
               dictionary and replaces it.  Subsequent ctl-T charac-
               ters cycle through the possibilities.  A word is the
               longest immediately preceding unbroken string of hira-
               gana characters.

          ctl-K
               Japanese katakana.

          ctl-R
               Russian: interpret letters as Cyrillic; the transliter-
               ation is mostly phonetic, with ' for myagkij-znak (ь),
               '' for tverdyj-znak (ъ) yo for ё, j for i-kratkaya (й).

          ctl-L
               Greek.

     FILES
          /dev/kbd

     SOURCE
          /sys/src/cmd/ktrans

     SEE ALSO
          8½(1)

     BUGS
          Considerably more sophistication is required to support
          ideographic languages properly.

          There is no way to generate the control characters

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          literally.

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