Canna - Japanese input system

Overview

Canna is a Japanese input system for UNIX/Linux. It consists of a kana-to-kanji conversion engine (cannaserver), a user interface engine (libcanna) and a front end processor for console (canuum). You can also use Canna in X11 (via "kinput2" XIM server), Emacs (with an appropreate patch) or other applications.

Download

The latest release is Canna 3.7p4 (released on 09 Jun 2025). Older releases are available at the GitHub release page

Development

GitHub project page is here. Being designed in 1990s, this project is mostly for maintenance and distribution of existing releases. If you have any patches or bug reports, mail to shinra@j10n.org.