Japanese sort order in indexes

[Makoto Nagasawa]

Hello Celine,

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Jeremy H. Griffith <jeremy at omsys.com> wrote:
>
> The problem with Japanese is that it is not sorted
> by the Unicode character order of the displayed
> glyphs (which are usually katakana).  Instead, it
> is sorted according to the pronunciation of the
> words, as given in a different script, kanji.
> The software has no idea what the kanji is, so
> you have to provide it by the usual Frame sort
> order method, in []s for every single index entry.
> Naturally this requires a Japanese native speaker.
>

You may use a software to convert Kanji to Kana (pronunciation).

- KAKASI - Kanji Kana Simple Inverter
http://kakasi.namazu.org/

I use KAKASI and Perl Module
(http://search.cpan.org/~dankogai/Text-Kakasi-2.04/Kakasi.pm) to
insert Kana (pronunciation) in
FrameMaker Mif file.

However, Japanese native speaker need to check
whether the Index are sorted correctly or not.

Best regards,
Makoto Nagasawa
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