chinese-conv
A front end in emacs to convert between simplified and traditional Chinese with opencc or cconv.
Author: Cong Gu
Install
Prerequisite
Have either opencc or cconv installed in your system.
MELPA
Use
M-x
package-install
RET
chinese-conv
RET
Put the following into init file (e.g. ~/.emacs
)
(require 'chinese-conv)
Manual
Put chinese-conv.el into desired location (e.g. ~/.emacs/site-lisp/
)
and put the following into init file (e.g. ~/.emacs
)
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp")
(require 'chinese-conv)
Configuration
Chinese-conv comes with support for opencc and cconv as backends.
Use opencc as backend (Default)
To change opencc program path, set chinese-conv-opencc-program
(default: "opencc"),
(setq chinese-conv-opencc-program "/PATH/TO/BIN/opencc")
To change opencc data directory, set chinese-conv-opencc-data
(default: "/usr/share/opencc/"),
(setq chinese-conv-opencc-data "/PATH/TO/DATA/")
Use cconv as backend
Set the backend to cconv,
(setq chinese-conv-backend "cconv")
To change cconv program path, set chinese-conv-cconv-program
(default: "cconv"),
(setq chinese-conv-cconv-program "/PATH/TO/BIN/cconv")
Usage
Interactive query
Example:
M-x
chinese-conv
RET
后天
RET
traditional
RET
后天
is the string to convert. The interactive command will guess it
from marked region or current word.
traditional
is the conversion type. It is read with completion among all the
available types. Hit TAB
for a complete list of available types.
The result will be displayed in minibuffer.
Interactive replace
Example: Mark the region to be converted in the buffer, then
M-x
chinese-conv-replace
RET
traditional
RET
The marked region will be converted to traditional characters.
Non-interactive API
(chinese-conv "后天" "traditional")
=> "後天"
Backend can be explicitly specified,
(chinese-conv "后天" "traditional" "opencc")
=> "後天"