Brief Information about FreeWnn

NOTE: This page may not cover current status.

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What is FreeWnn?

'Wnn' is pronounced 'un-nu'. Basic information of Wnn is described in (English version of) "What is Wnn?".
FreeWnn is derived (and GPL-ed) version of Wnn4.2, contributed X11 software.
FreeWnn is a client-server type Kana (pronounciation) - Kanji in Japanese translation system. It also converts to Hanzi in Chinese, both Simplified and Traditional, and Hanja in Korean.
Distributed under GNU GPL / LGPL (mainly library part). (Some of the file may distribute separately under more loose license. See each file for details.)

NOTE: We don't officially have a client implementation now. (You can try uum ( terminal frontend for Japanese) by adding '--enable-client' with the configure script, but it is experimental.) Please use (for example) Tamago (for Emacs), kinput2, im-ja and other clients using libwnn.

You can get current (alpha) source code via Files section of the project page. We recommend the current version.

The latest development code is hosted in the CVS repository of SourceForge.jp . You can view the source tree through the web via ViewCVS. To get code via Anonymous CVS, you can do like the following:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.jp:/cvsroot/freewnn login
(Password is not needed, so you just press return when password: prompt appears)

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.jp:/cvsroot/freewnn co FreeWnn

Please see CVS section of project page for details.

Mailing Lists

We currently have two mailing lists.

freewnn-users: User-supported mailing-list about FreeWnn development and usage of FreeWnn. Discussions are held in Japanese for now, but bug reports (etc.) in English are welcome. (Message in other language are also welcome, but we don't read them very well.) (Subscribe / Archive)
freewnn-cvs: Deliver for developers to commit changes the source tree. You should not send your mail to this list. Use freewnn-users. (Subscribe / Archive)

Notice: FreeWnn mailing list (freewnn at tomo gr jp) has been closed (Part of archive in Japanese) .