ports/149685: new port: japanese/zinnia

Timothy Beyer beyert at cs.ucr.edu
Sun Aug 22 21:10:05 UTC 2010


The following reply was made to PR ports/149685; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Timothy Beyer <beyert at cs.ucr.edu>
To: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: beyert at cs.ucr.edu, bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/149685: new port: japanese/zinnia
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:06:22 -0700

 At Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:41:44 +0800,
 Li-Wen Hsu wrote:
 > 
 > Hi,
 > 
 > Thanks for porting this and submitting to FreeBSD.  These ports looks
 > nice, but I am wondering if japanese is the best category these ports
 > go.  Does Zinnia recognizes only Japanese characters?  Or we can add
 > them into another category, say, graphics?
 > 
 > Best regards,
 > Li-Wen
 > 
 > -- 
 > Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu AT FreeBSD.org>
 > http://lwhsu.org
 
 Hi Li-Wen,
 
 The libraries themselves I think also support Chinese, but they would need additional Hanzi databases to work properly.  As for Zinnia, it is written by a native Japanese speaker, (I think) so I would presume the support for Japanese is where the author focuses, but it sounds like a general recognition analysis library that depends mostly on the data that you "train" it with.  The frontend (Tekagi) supports both Chinese and Japanese handwriting analysis, and it appears to use the zinnia engine for that ana lysis.
 
 If you have a more general category in mind for these utilities, I would have no problem with changing to that category.  Graphics is fine.
 
 Tim



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