Shinyubin for Kotoeri

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Shinyubin is a ZIP code dictionary for Kotoeri, the standard Mac OS X Japanese input method. zipcodic is a tool for converting the raw ZIP code data published by Japan Post, and its output forms the basis of Shinyubin.

License

zipcodic is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2.

Shinyubin is based on data published by Japan Post, which claims no copyright over said data. You are free to redistribute it.

Requirements

Shinyubin should be usable on any system where Kotoeri is available.

zipcodic requires PHP (with the mbstring module installed).

Usage

Shinyubin

  1. Download Shinyubin.dmg below and open it.
  2. Copy the file "新郵便番号辞書" to ~/Library/Dictionaries (home → Library → Dictionaries).
  3. In the Kotoeri input menu select "Kotoeri Preferences", and then in the "辞書" section, highlight "新郵便番号辞書" and click the "開く" button.

zipcodic conversion tool

  1. Download zipcodic.php below.
  2. Download and expand a datafile ("oogaki", "kogaki", prefectural, national, residential and business types are all supported).
  3. Open a Terminal and cd to the folder containing the script.
  4. Make the script executable with chmod u+x zipcodic.php
  5. Extract with ./zipcodic.php kotoeri [FILE]
  6. Formats other than Kotoeri are also supported. Invoke without arguments (./zipcodic.php) and see the help text for details.

Input the converted file into your Japanese input method of choice's dictionary creation tool to make the dictionary. For details, see your input method's documentation.

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