Free chinese software for linux

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.

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.

Unix I-Ching Generator project is an I Ching generator for the Unix command line.
It accepts questions and generates responses that can be looked up in the I Ching (a Chinese divination book).
It is designed around "spiritual algorithms", that is, algorithms that make some sort of sense spiritually, not just programatically.
This is software that automates the casting of I-Ching hexagrams. It does not provide the interpretations or readings of those hexagrams.
It merely outputs a mandella of two hexagrams and then informs you of the numerical identity of each hexagram.
Enhancements:
- Moved global options to header file. (ARJ)
- Changed unigram::cast() so that it relied on globals. (ARJ)
- Fixed spelling errors. (ARJ)

Encode::HanExtra Perl module contains extra sets of Chinese encodings.



SYNOPSIS

use Encode;

# Traditional Chinese
$euc_tw = encode("euc-tw", $utf8); # loads Encode::HanExtra implicitly
$utf8 = decode("euc-tw", $euc_tw); # ditto

# Simplified Chinese
$gb18030 = encode("gb18030", $utf8); # loads Encode::HanExtra implicitly
$utf8 = decode("gb18030", $gb18030); # ditto

Perl 5.7.3 and later ships with an adequate set of Chinese encodings, including the commonly used CP950, CP936 (also known as GBK), Big5 (alias for Big5-Eten), Big5-HKSCS, EUC-CN, HZ, and ISO-IR-165.

However, the numbers of Chinese encodings are staggering, and a complete coverage will easily increase the size of perl distribution by several megabytes; hence, this CPAN module tries to provide the rest of them.

If you are using perl 5.8 or later, Encode::CN and Encode::TW will automatically load the extra encodings for you, so theres no need to explicitly write use Encode::HanExtra if you are using one of them already.

ENCODINGS

This version includes the following encoding tables:

Canonical Alias Description
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
big5-1984 /b(tca-)?big5-?(19)?84$/i TCAs original Big5-1984
big5ext /b(cmex-)?big5-?e(xt)?$/i CMEXs Big5e Extension
big5plus /b(cmex-)?big5-?p(lus)?$/i CMEXs Big5+ Extension
/b(cmex-)?big5+$/i
cccii /b(ccag-)?cccii$/i Chinese Character Code for
Information Interchange
cns11643-1 /bCNS[-_ ]?11643[-_]1$/i Taiwans CNS map, plane 1
cns11643-2 /bCNS[-_ ]?11643[-_]2$/i Taiwans CNS map, plane 2
cns11643-3 /bCNS[-_ ]?11643[-_]3$/i Taiwans CNS map, plane 3
cns11643-4 /bCNS[-_ ]?11643[-_]4$/i Taiwans CNS map, plane 4
cns11643-5 /bCNS[-_ ]?11643[-_]5$/i Taiwans CNS map, plane 5
cns11643-6 /bCNS[-_ ]?11643[-_]6$/i Taiwans CNS map, plane 6
cns11643-7 /bCNS[-_ ]?11643[-_]7$/i Taiwans CNS map, plane 7
cns11643-f /bCNS[-_ ]?11643[-_]f$/i Taiwans CNS map, plane F
euc-tw /beuc.*tw$/i EUC (Extended Unix Character)
/btw.*euc$/i
gb18030 /bGB[-_ ]?18030$/i GBK with Traditional Characters
unisys /bunisys$/i Unisys Traditional Chinese
unisys-sosi1 Unisys SOSI1 transport encoding
unisys-sosi2 Unisys SOSI2 transport encoding

Detailed descriptions are as follows:

BIG5-1984

This is the original Big5 encoding made by TCA Taiwan.

BIG5PLUS

This encoding, while not heavily used, is an attempt to bring all Taiwans conflicting internal-use encodings together, and fit it as an extension to the widely-deployed Big5 range, by CMEX Taiwan.

BIG5EXT

The CMEXs second (and less ambitious) try at unifying the most commonly used characters not covered by Big5, while not polluting out of the 94x94 arragement like BIG5PLUS did.

CCCII

The earliest (and most sophisticated) Traditional Chinese encoding, with a three-byte raw character map, made in 1980 by the Chinese Character Analysis Group (CCAG), used mostly in library systems.

EUC-TW

The EUC transport version of CNS11643 (planes 1-7), the comprehensive character set used by the Taiwan government.

CNS11643-*

The raw character map extracted from the Unihan database, including the plane F which wasnt included in EUC-TW.

GB18030

An extension to GBK, this encoding lists most Han characters (both simplified and traditional), as well as some other encodings used by other peoples in China.

UNISYS

Unisys Systems internal Chinese mapping.

ZhuaShuShell project is a set of bash shell scripts to crawl online e-books (in HTML format) from certain Chinese e-book sites and save the data that is formatted as a single text book to your local machine.
Enhancements:
- A new BBS board that store some stories about ghosts is supported.

Lingua::ZH::DateTime is a Perl module to convert time to chinese format.

SYNOPSIS

This module can convert asctime to chinese format in your locale. you can select china singapore hongkong taiwan locale and gb2312/big5 charset. asctime is ASC C standard format will from localtime like this:

$asctime = localtime();

jTans project is a Java Tangram puzzle game.
jTans is a Java version of Tangram, an ancient Chinese puzzle. The object is to put 7 geometric shapes together to form a given outline. All of the pieces must be used and are laid next to one another. It can be run as a Java 2 applet, a standalone application, or a Web Start application.
Main features:
- Java2 application wich may be used as an applet, a standalone application or a Java Web Start application. (there is also a C/GTK version for Linux and Unix called gTans)
- 290 figures.
- Hint and solution.
- Most of the game colors and textures are configurable.
- Internationnalized (actually english, spanish an partially french)
- Resizeable window.
- The size of the pieces (relative to the game area) may be changed.
- The solved figures are remembered.