Kawa.netxp [Ajax] Romanization of Japanese language (Kanji and Kana)

Live demo page is here.

This web service's specification

The mapping table from Kanji to roman is based on the dictionary of SKK which is a Japanese input method on Emacs. It was designed by Dr. Masahiko Sato and created in 1987. SKK is an abbreviation of 'Simple Kana to Kanji conversion program'.

Request

Request URL: http://www.kawa.net/works/ajax/romanize/romanize.cgi (POST method)

mode=japanese&ie=CHARSET&q=CHARSET

MODE is required; mode=japanese or mode=kana.
CHARSET is optional; and default value is ie=UTF-8.
QUERY is URL encoded Japanese phrases.

POX over HTTP response

The response from server is a POX, Plain Old XML, format.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<ul>
  <li>
    <span title="ni">に</span>
    <span title="ho">ほ</span>
    <span title="n">ん</span>
  </li>
</ul>

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