From: Paul Battley <pbattley@...>
Date: 2004-10-12T04:48:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Bit of the Matz Interview (in Rubyist Magazine)

> > > There are some tools to convert Kanjis into Hiraganas (kakasi, for
> > > example).  It might be help for Japanese beginners.
...
> ICU (International Components for Unicode) has a transformation that
> allows you to convert Unicode Kanji, Katakana, and Hiragana to Romanji
> reasonably reliably.

There appears to be quite a choice of packages when it comes to trying
to analyse Japanese text and to produce automatic furigana.

There's a table on the MeCab page comparing the operation of four
Japanese morphological analysers, though not ICU:
http://chasen.org/~taku/software/mecab/#diff
(Caveat: it's in Japanese.)

Paul.