Transliteration from Japanese to Hiragana and or Roomaji

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It would be great if the ajax translate apis could convert from Japanese 
(mixed kana and kanji) to a phonetic representation (preferably strictly kana 
or alternatively romanization)

Particularly it would be useful to get kanji <-> furigana pairs so that 
furigana could be looked up for kanji compounds that a user cannot read.

It seems that a romanization transliteration is available on the new 
translate.google.com but I couldn't figure out how to access it from the 
current AJAX API documentation. Transliteration of Japanese returns an 
"unsupported language pair" error currently.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by sail...@gmail.com on 5 Dec 2009 at 4:59

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Excellent suggestion. The transliteration API is here:

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/#Transliteration

But as you noted Japanese (kana and kanji) is not currently supported.

Original comment by jscud.w...@gmail.com on 7 Dec 2009 at 5:38

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Original comment by jscud.w...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2010 at 5:51

• Added labels: APIType-Language

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Yes, I second this suggestion to add romanization to the API. I am constantly 
asked 
by clients if I can produce them a  translation "box" on their sites, which I 
can...and then they ask for romanization.

It would be great if I could complete that part of it.

Original comment by palls...@gmail.com on 10 Mar 2010 at 5:12