| 摘要 |
PURPOSE:To compress description data on the name of a place and read the description data out through simple processing. CONSTITUTION:A converting means 102 converts a reading character string, inputted from an input means 101, from KANA (Japanese syllabary) to KANJI (Chinese character). At this time, the converting means 102 requests a reading means 104 to retrieve a dictionary. The reading means 104 refers to the place name dictionary 105 containing character strings, whose specific character codes are replaced with compressed codes, as place name description data and reads the place name description data out, but when the place name description data includes the compressed code, a compressed code table 106 containing a compressed character code group in the order of compressed codes is referred to and outputted after the compressed codes are replaced with the original character codes. The converting means 102 performs KANA-KANJI conversion by using the output result of the reading means 104 and displays the result on a display means 103. Consequently, the description data on the place name can be compressed and the data can be read out by the simple processing. |
