ifcss.org:pub/software/msdos/convert/c2t.txt README.C2T This file created March 1993 by Stephen G. Simpson (simpson@math.psu.edu) C2T is a program to translate Chinese into PinYin with tones. Two kinds of Chinese character codes are supported: GB and BIG-5. Background information: PinYin is a way to write spoken Chinese with Roman characters. GB (GuoBiao) refers to the standard implementation of "GB2312-80" of Mainland China, in which the two bytes representing a GB code have their most significant bit set to 1. BIG-5 refers to the Big Five standard published in 1984 by Taiwan's Institute for Information Industry. Currently, most popular Chinese systems and programs use either GB or BIG-5. C2T was created in 1992 by Tommi Kaikkonen (tommi@phoenix.oulu.fi), with improvements by Katya Ta (ta_k@maths.su.oz.au). I compiled C2T for MS-DOS using Turbo C 2.0 with the compact memory model. The command to compile was tcc -mc -O -G c2t To convert GB to PinYin, do c2t -m -D tonepy.tit < gbfile > pyfile To convert BIG-5 to PinYin, do c2t -m -D etpy.tit < big5file > pyfile