# Japanese dictionary data `kanji.dict` is the historical dictionary bundled with strans. Its own header identifies it as the SKK Medium dictionary, version 8.1 of May 24, 1995, rearranged for Plan 9 ktrans by Kenji Okamoto on February 17, 2000. It was already present when this repository was created in commit `dcd1147638f908eca7e4b7616815e215022cc99d` on December 23, 2025. No original SKK input file or upstream revision was committed, so the current file cannot honestly be regenerated byte-for-byte from repository artifacts. The license notice in its header permits redistribution and modification under GPL version 2 or later. The repository copy keeps that historical candidate order. Duplicate keys were merged at their first occurrence, later unseen candidates were appended in source order, duplicate candidates were removed, and the empty `ようたつ` row was removed. ## Importing a current SKK dictionary From the repository root, fetch a known upstream revision and convert it with: ``` git clone https://github.com/skk-dev/dict.git map/skkdicts git -C map/skkdicts checkout --detach REVISION map/skk2ktrans map/skkdicts/SKK-JISYO.M >map/kanji.dict.new python3 map/verifymap.py map/kanji.dict.new ``` Use a full skk-dev/dict commit ID for `REVISION` and record it when replacing the bundled data. Git is needed only to fetch upstream data; it is not part of the normal build image. `skk2ktrans` accepts one or more EUC-JP SKK files (or standard input), writes UTF-8 tab-separated rows, and merges input in command-line and source order. It strips annotations, deduplicates candidates, and omits candidates containing whitespace. Rows containing expressions or escaped candidate delimiters are rejected; rewrite or omit those rows before import. `verifymap.py` checks UTF-8, row structure, unique keys, 64-rune keys and values, canonical candidate spacing, and duplicate dictionary candidates. Pass it the exact `.map` and `.dict` files installed by the build.