McCune-Reischauer Converter
I like to use the McCune-Reischauer form of Korean Go players’ name because that’s what Sensei’s Library use for page titles. Therefore, it is “Yi Se-tol” not “Lee Sedol” and “Yi Ch’ang-ho” not “Lee Changho”. Unlike other romanizations, we can reconstruct the hangul correctly from its McC-R form.
It was a pain in the arm to write articles containing Korean Go player names because I had to repeatedly look at the reference and do lots of “find & replace”. Therefore I made a small tool to do that job:
$ mcrconverter --help
This program will change Korean Go player names in a file into
their McCune-Reischauer form.
Usage:
mcrconverter [options] file:
change the contents of a file
or
mcrconverter [options] folder:
change the contents of SGF files in a folder
Options can be:
–change-file-name:
also changes the file/folder name
–recursive:
search for files inside subfolders recursively
Other than useful for writing articles, this tool can also be used to mass-rename the contents of an sgf file, and even the filename itself.
The source and executable are here (requires .NET Framework 2.0).
