==== AGTHC ====

AGTHC ([[http://agthook.googlepages.com/|AGTH]] ((AGTH is a [[http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#freeware|freeware]] program. It is hoped that AGTH will be replaced with a free tool someday.)) Companion) is a unified frontend for various Japanese translators, transliterators, dictionaries and [[wp>Part-of-speech tagging|part-of-speech taggers]]. Since AGTH has no problems running [[http://hushus.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/agth-atlas-with-wine/|under GNU/Linux]] with [[http://www.winehq.org/|Wine]], this script can be considered as a free alternative to [[http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/software/translation/atlas/|ATLAS]]. You don't really need AGTH to use this program, it's just AGTHC //can// work together with it.

You can grab the latest release [[http://freeconsole.org/crew/salviati/software/agthc|here]].

=====Features=====
  * Translation via [[http://translate.google.com|Google Translate]], [[http://honyaku.yahoo.co.jp/|Honyaku]], [[http://www.so-net.ne.jp/translation/|So-net]], [[http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/|Excite]], [[http://www.freetranslation.com/|FreeTranslation]], [[http://www.ocn.ne.jp/translation/|OCN]], [[http://babelfish.yahoo.com/|Babel Fish]].
  * Transliteration via [[http://translate.google.com|Google Translate]], [[http://kakasi.namazu.org/|kakasi]].
  * Word-by-word dictionary look-up (([[wp>Part-of-speech tagging|POST]] + [[http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/edict.html|EDICT]] look-up)) via [[http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C|WWWJDIC]] (and [[http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdicmirrors.html|mirrors]]).
  * [[wp>Part-of-speech tagging|POST]] via [[http://mecab.sourceforge.net/|MeCab]]
  * Support for proxies (so you can torify the connections, for instance).
  * Clipboard listening.
  * Traffic throttling.
  * Flexible UI.
  * Extensible modules.

=====Planned Features=====
  * Support for [[http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/edict.html|EDICT dictionary files]] as an offline alternative to WWWJDIC.
  * Support for [[http://www-lab25.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/nl-resource/juman-e.html|JUMAN]]
  * Simple replace & regex replace on input text.
  * Global hotkeys.
  * Specific settings per module.

=====Dependencies===
  * [[http://www.python.org|Python]] (2.6) ((You can use [[http://docs.python.org/library/2to3.html|2to3]] if you need to run it under Python 3))
  * [[http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/|PyQt4]]

=====Optional Dependencies=====
  * [[http://kakasi.namazu.org/|kakasi]] (man page [[http://freeconsole.org/crew/salviati/kakasi.1.html|here]])
  * [[http://mecab.sourceforge.net/|MeCab]] and [[http://sourceforge.net/projects/mecab/files/mecab-python/|mecab-python]]
  * [[http://agthook.googlepages.com/|AGTH]]
  * [[http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/software/translation/atlas/|ATLAS]] along with [[http://freeconsole.org/crew/salviati/software/agthc|atlaspipe]]
  * internet connection :-)

=====Using with Tor=====
Ordinarily, once you get [[https://www.torproject.org/|tor]] running, these proxy settings should do the job
  Host: localhost
  Port: 8118
  Connection: HTTP
=====Bugs=====
  * Albeit the program runs swiftly under GNU/Linux, it is known to hang under Windows. This is probably a bug related to thread PyQt4's thread handling under Windows. Well, who cares :-P