# Pykakasi authors

Pykakasi is written and maintained by Hiroshi Miura <miurahr@linux.com>

Contributors, listed alphabetically, are:

- Ben – Fix convert() function to handle correctly in various cases.

- @FGtatsuro – porting to python 3.x, introduce tox testing.

- Jan Malakhovski – word split and furigana mode

- Michael Farrell – README document

- @Northernbird – Implement function to handle long symbols

- Takuya Iwasa – Same as above

- @mohno007 – Add conversions: kya, kyu, kyo

- Victor Neo – Hiragana for age counter

KKASI dictionary was originally developed by following authors.

> Copyright (C) 1992 1993 1994

> Hironobu Takahashi (takahasi@tiny.or.jp), Masahiko Sato (masahiko@sato.riec.tohoku.ac.jp),

> Yukiyoshi Kameyama, Miki Inooka, Akihiko Sasaki, Dai Ando, Junichi Okukawa, Katsushi Sato and Nobuhiro Yamagishi

> The KAKASI dictionary had been made from the large size dictionary of SKK system version 7 of May, 1994 and the special dictionary for KAKASI version 1 of May 1, 1992.

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