Free chinese character software for linux

MyChineseFlashCardss goal is to ease the visual and auditory memorization of the 1000 most used Chinese characters.
To reach that goal, MyChineseFlashcards allows the user to learn characters with flash cards method; to access the characters of the dictionary in random, ascending, or descending order; to filter the characters, using one of 31 available filters; and to consult statistics on characters
Main features:
- cross-platform application (Windows (XP, 2000, NT), Mac OS X and Linux.
- currently 500 characters (the remaining 500 hundred characters to come soon),
- pronunciation of the characters,
- characters and its related information can be visualized in a flash cards format or in a tabular format,
- classical or simplified character visualisation,
- 3 cards visualisation orders: random, by ascending, descending,
- three learning mode (character hiding, meaning hiding, both),
- More than 31 character filters (radical, non radical, pictogram, etc),
- graphically close characters selection,
- character type statistics,
- radicals tab,
- cards can be displayed automatically in the automatic navigation mode,
- available in English and French.

Speak Good Chinese is a cross-platform application based on GTK technology that allows you or your students to train their Mandarin pronunciation. Our software is based on Praat, leading software in speech analysis. Our speech technology is backed by the Institute of Phonetic Sciences part of the University of Amsterdam.
SpeakGoodChinese software was supported financially by the DU. Questions can be mailed to stefandekonink@xs4all.nl, they will be forwarded to the appropriate project member.
Enhancements:
- This release makes administrative tasks easier for teachers or students that want to manage or distribute their own wordlists.
- Another new feature in this subsystem is the shuffle function.
- Several bugs were solved related to cleaning up old recordings.
- New documentation was added.

Convert::CharMap is a Perl module that can conversion between Unicode Character Maps.

SYNOPSIS

use Convert::CharMap;
my $map = Convert::CharMap->load(CharMapML => test.xml);
$map->save(UCM => test.ucm);

This module transforms between unicode character map formats, using an in-memory representation of CharMapML as the intermediate format.

Currently is supports the CharMapML, YAML and UCM (write-only) backends; ENC, Iconv and other maps are also planned.

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.

perlrecharclass package contains Perl regular expression character classes.

The top level documentation about Perl regular expressions is found in perlre.
This manual page discusses the syntax and use of character classes in Perl Regular Expressions.

A character class is a way of denoting a set of characters, in such a way that one character of the set is matched. Its important to remember that matching a character class consumes exactly one character in the source string. (The source string is the string the regular expression is matched against.)
There are three types of character classes in Perl regular expressions: the dot, backslashed sequences, and the bracketed form.

The dot

The dot (or period), . is probably the most used, and certainly the most well-known character class. By default, a dot matches any character, except for the newline. The default can be changed to add matching the newline with the single line modifier: either for the entire regular expression using the /s modifier, or locally using (?s).

Here are some examples:

"a" =~ /./ # Match
"." =~ /./ # Match
"" =~ /./ # No match (dot has to match a character)
"n" =~ /./ # No match (dot does not match a newline)
"n" =~ /./s # Match (global single line modifier)
"n" =~ /(?s:.)/ # Match (local single line modifier)
"ab" =~ /^.$/ # No match (dot matches one character)

Backslashed sequences

Perl regular expressions contain many backslashed sequences that constitute a character class. That is, they will match a single character, if that character belongs to a specific set of characters (defined by the sequence). A backslashed sequence is a sequence of characters starting with a backslash. Not all backslashed sequences are character class; for a full list, see perlrebackslash.

Heres a list of the backslashed sequences, which are discussed in more detail below.

d Match a digit character.
D Match a non-digit character.
w Match a "word" character.
W Match a non-"word" character.
s Match a white space character.
S Match a non-white space character.
h Match a horizontal white space character.
H Match a character that isnt horizontal white space.
v Match a vertical white space character.
V Match a character that isnt vertical white space.
pP, p{Prop} Match a character matching a Unicode property.
PP, P{Prop} Match a character that doesnt match a Unicode property.

Chinesepera-kun: Chinese Popup Dictionary is a Firefox extension that will allow you read Chinese on websites. This is useful for just getting around a site, or even MORE useful if you are studying Chinese. It works with both Simplified and Traditional characters, and also allows you to export words to a file to study later.

After installation, you can goto the "customize toolbar" menu and find the green book icon and put it on your firefox toolbar. When you are on a site with Chinese, simply click the green book icon and then put your mouse over Chinese words to view the reading and defintion.

In the extension options dialog you can set a place to save entries to, then when a the popup window with a definition is being displayed, if you press it will export the topmost entry to the file you designated.

In the options dialog you can also click "Show More Entries", which will search the dictionary file for more entries that are relevant. (This is disabled by default).

If you want to see information about a particular character, press while over that character and you will see additional information.

This extension is a modded version of from the plugin originally developed by www.rikai.com -> Rikai-chan -> Perapera-kun which were for Japanese. This extension uses dictionary files generously borrowed from www.adsotrans.com and the CEDICT project as well as the UNIHAN character file.

The export file will be encoded in GB2312 for Simplified and BIG5 for Traditional so be sure to use a program that can read the file correctly.

Thesaurus is a Perl module that maintains lists of associated items.

SYNOPSIS

use Thesaurus;

my $th = Thesaurus->new( -files => [ file1, file2 ],
-ignore_case => 1 );

@words = $th->find(vegan);

%words = $th->find( Faye );

foreach $word ( @{ $words{Faye} } )
{
#something ...
}

$th->add_file( file1, file2 );

$th->add( [ tofu, mock duck ] );

$th->delete( meat, vivisection );

Thesaurus is a module that allows you to create lists of related things. It was created in order to facilitate searches of a database of Chinese names in Anglicized form. Because there are various schemes to create phonetic representations of Chinese words, the following can all represent the same Chinese character:

Woo
Wu
Ng

Thesaurus can be used for anything that fits into a scalar by using the new method with no parameters and then calling the add method to add data.
Thesaurus also acts as the parent class to several child classes which implement various forms of persistence for the data structure. This module can be used on its own to instantiate an object that lives for the life of its scope.