Free characters software for linux

Hanzi Master project is a visual, interactive Chinese character and word dictionary.
Hanzim ("Hanzi Master") is an interactive visual dictionary for learning and seeing relationships between Chinese radicals, characters, and compounds.
All the characters with a given radical, phonetic component, or pronunciation can be displayed, and all words containing a character, with English meanings.
All data is stored locally. Either simplified or traditional characters can be used.
Main features:
- typing in pinyin gives list of characters and definitions with that pronunciation
- clicking on a radical gives list of characters and definitions with that radical
- clicking on any character in any list displays that character along with the compounds it occurs in as the first or second character.

Kanatest project is a hiragana and katakana drill tool.

Kanatest is a simple, GTK 2-based kana drill tool. It offers three drill modes: hiragana, katakana, and mixed mode.

The tester shows random kana characters and waits until you enter the romaji equivalent in an entry field.

At the end, statistics are provided.

SWF::Builder::Character::EditText is a SWF dynamic editable text object.

SYNOPSIS

my $text = $mc->new_dynamic_text( $font )
->size(10)
->color(000000)
->text(This is a text.);

my $text_i = $text->place;

my $field = $mc->new_input_field;
$field->place;

^This module creates dynamic editable text objects, which can be changed at playing time.

Basic dynamic editable text object

$etext = $mc->new_edit_text( [$font, $text] )

returns a new basic dynamic editable text object. It has interfaces to raw DefineEditText tag. $font is an SWF::Builder::Font object.

$etext->font( $font )

applies the font to the text. $font is an SWF::Builder::Font object. Unlike static text, the font is applied to the whole text. If the text will be changed in the playing time, you should add glyph data of all characters which will be used to the font by $font->add_glyph or turn off the embed flag of the font.

$etext->size( $size )

sets a font size to $size in pixel. Unlike static text, the font size of the whole text is changed.

$etext->color( $color )

sets color of the text. The color can take a six or eight-figure hexadecimal string, an array reference of R, G, B, and optional alpha value, an array reference of named parameters such as [Red => 255], and SWF::Element::RGB/RGBA object. Unlike static text, the color is applied to the whole text.

$etext->text( $string )

writes the $string.

$etext->leading( $leading )

sets the vertical distance between the lines in pixel.

$etext->box_size( $width, $height )

sets the bounding box of the text and stops auto-sizing the box. When either $width or $height is undef, it is unchanged. Fixing bounding box may cause unexpected text clipping. You should set DefineEditText flag Multiline and/or WordWrap. See SWF::Element.

$etext->draw_border

draws the border.

$etext->align( left / right / center / justify )

sets the text alignment.

$etext->methos for SWF::Element::Tag::DefineEditText

You can control details of the texts to call methods for DefineEditText tag. See SWF::Element.

Preset dynamic text object

The following objects are inheritants of the basic dynamic editable text. These are preset some proper flags of DefineEditText tag.

$dtext = $mc->new_dynamic_text( [$font, $text] )

returns a new dynamic text. It is read-only, multiline text enabled, and auto-sized its bounding box.

$htmltext = $mc->new_html_text( [$html] )

returns a new HTML text. It is read-only, multiline text enabled, and auto-sized its bounding box. The text is treated as a subset of HTML. Supported tags are < a >, < b >, < br >, < font >, < i >, < img >, < li >, < p >, < span >, < u >, and two special tags, < tab > and < textformat >. See Macromedia Flash File Format Specification and ActionScript Reference Guide for further information.

$htmltext->use_font( $font, ... )

tells $htmltext what fonts are used in the HTML. In general, upright, italic, bold, and bold italic font are in the different TrueType font files. You should prepare 2-4 fonts if you use < b > and < i > tags, like this:

my $fp = $ENV{SYSTEMROOT}./fonts; # for Windows.
my $font = $m->new_font("$fp/arial.ttf");
$font->add_glyph(a, z);
my $fonti = $m->new_font("$fp/ariali.ttf");
$fonti->add_glyph(a, z);
my $ht = $m->new_html_text;
$ht->text(test < i >string< /i >< /font >);
$ht->use_font($font, $fonti);

$mc->new_text_area( $width, $height )

returns a new editable text area. It takes area width and height in pixel.

$mc->new_input_field( [$length] )

returns a new one-line input field. $length is a max length of input string.

$mc->new_password_field( [$length] )

returns a new one-line password field. $length is a max length of input string.

Convert::RACE is a conversion between Unicode and RACE.

SYNOPSIS

use Convert::RACE;

$domain = to_race($utf16str);
$utf16str = from_race($domain);

This module provides functions to convert between RACE (Row-based ASCII-Compatible Encoding) and Unicode Encodings.

RACE converts strings with internationalized characters into strings of US-ASCII that are acceptable as host name parts in current DNS host naming usage.

Java Desktop Rolemaster Character Generator project is a character generator for the Rolemaster FRP roleplaying game.
Java Desktop Rolemaster Character Generator is a gradually-developing cross-platform character generator for the Rolemaster FRP role-playing game from Iron Crown Enterprises. It can create and develop Rolemaster characters quickly. It contains information from the Rolemaster FRP book and the current Character Law, with training packages and equipment.
Main features:
- Races (Rolemaster FRP + current Character Law - 1)
- Professions (Rolemaster FRP + current Character Law)
- Stat gains
- Allocation of weapon category costs
- Adolescence development
- Apprenticeship development
- Skills/Categories - Now fills in spell list names, weapon names, etc from populated data
- Special Skills (Occupational, everyman, etc. - professions and races), with indicators
- Advances levels
- Training Packages (Rolemaster FRP + current Character Law)
- Background Options - now with "Extra Languages"
- Load/Save/Print
- Equipment, with populated data
- Calculate encumburance weight correctly
- Is built entirely of 100% Pure Java!
- Works on any OS!

cpdetector project is a small yet clever framework for codepage detection.

cpdetector is a small yet clever framework for codepage detection that integrates different strategies. It may be used as a library for third party software that accesses textual data over network.

It also includes a best-practice implementation in form of a command line tool that allows sorting and transforming large collections of documents based on their codepage.

Available strategies include: jchardet (exclusion, frequency analysis, and guessing), detection of the HTML charset property, and detection of the XML encoding declaration.

What is a code page?

At first, a textual document is nothing more than sequences of bits. A computer has to decide, how he can display this data in form of characters (which are identified by the computer as numbers).

A code page - which is also known as charset encoding - maps the raw data of a textual document to characters. The original ASCII code page for example only uses 7 bits of an octet (byte) for deciding the character that is represented thus allowing only to map 128 different characters. In the past memory was expensive and computers most often only had registers and busses for 8 bit.

When a mainframe was conceived it had to be decided, which characters it should support. Physicians and mathematicians for example needed special characters for equations. As a result, a computer often shipped with a special codepage.

OCRE application is an optical character recognition (OCR) system that reads an image file and writes ASCII or Unicode characters.

Languages:

English, French, Polish, Spanish

Installation:

unpack the file ...tgz (tar xzvf ...)
# vi config.h instala # you can change the directory for the decision trees
sh instala
make depend
make ocre
ocre .....pgm
# waits you to enter the leter displayed (with RETURN)

# as root
make install installman

ocre.1 manual
ocre -h options, help