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## Japanese Support Plugin for KOReader ##
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This plugin is heavily based on Yomichan's design, and makes use of Yomichan's
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deinflection data, but was written specifically for KOReader. There are two
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major features implemented by this plugin:
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1. Verb deinflection (aka deconjugation) support, based on Yomichan's very
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elegant rule-matching suffix replacement system using Yomichan's data.
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2. Text segmentation support without needing MeCab or any other binary helper,
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by re-using the users' installed dictionaries to exhaustively try every
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length of text and select the longest match which is present in the
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dictionary. This is similar to how Yomichan does MeCab-less segmentation.
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On paper this plugin should also be work with Chinese text if the user has
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Chinese dictionaries installed, though that is not its primary intended
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use-case.
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The backbone of this plugin is the included `yomichan-deinflect.json`. This
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file is copied verbatim from [Yomichan's `ext/data/deinflect.json`][yomichan-deinflect.json]
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and can be updated when necessary by simply getting a newer copy.
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Note that Yomichan and KOReader use the same license (GPL-3.0-or-later) so any
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theoretical licensing problems are a non-issue.
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[yomichan-deinflect.json]: https://github.com/FooSoft/yomichan/blob/21.9.30.0/ext/data/deinflect.json
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