anthy-dic-tool(1)

Name
anthy-dic-tool - a CLI tool to manipulate dictionaries.

SYNOPSIS
anthy-dic-tool [options]

DESCRIPTION
anthy-dic-tool is a CLI tool to manipulate dictionary files for anthy.

OPTIONS

--help
    Print help output.

--version
    Show version.

--dump
    Dump dictionary.

--load
    Load dictionary.

--append
    Append dictionary.

--migrate
    Migrate Anthy text dictionary to Anthy-Unicode text dictionary.

--eucjp
    Use EUC-JP encoding.

--personality=NAME
    Use NAME as a name of personality.

--text
    Use text dictionary with --append or --load option.

--src=FILE
    Use FILE as the source file.

--dest=FILE
    Use FILE as a destination file.

EXAMPLES
To migrate to anthy-unicode dictionary:

anthy-dic-tool --migrate --src=file1 --dest=file2

To load a user customized dictionary file:

anthy-dic-tool --load --src=file1

 or:

cat file | anthy-dic-tool --load

DICTIONARY FORMAT
See /usr/share/anthy/dic-tool-usage.txt and /usr/share/anthy/typetab for all necessary information to customize a dictionary.

REPORTING BUGS
Please report bugs to the Debian BTS, i.e. using reportbug(1).

SEE ALSO
anthy-agent(1), anthy-morphological-analyzer(1)

AUTHOR
Copyright 2026 Luke Yasuda <jing@jing.rocks>.

This manpage was written by Luke Yasuda, licensed under the terms of GNU General Pulic License version 2, or at your option any later version. There is absolutely no warranty; see /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 for the terms of the license.