I need a tool that is like Google's transliterate that will convert Pinyin to Chinese Character. It works like this:
http://shawnwow.com/chineseCharacterHelpr/transliterateTest.htm
But since it is discontinued there isn't much of an API.
An alternative I found early on was this:
http://yuhanz.github.io/chinese-ime.html
But that also didn't have much flexibility to its layout. It was made by a guy over the weekend while he was super kind he doesn't provide support.
Basically what I am looking for is the ability to grab the characters and display them how I want instead of in the box they provide. If you delete transliterateTest.htm from the URL of the first (limited to 2 URLs) and you type a Chinese character and click hint you will have a stronger idea of what I am looking for. What I need is to click a character and have the IME reset and do it all again. I tried to hack at this one but the functionality of the IME is acting funky.
What I would love is one that just goes out and grabs a Character array based on the JSON and gives me complete control on how I want to parse through the array. So far this site is entirely in JavaScript and while we will be getting Python later on I am only helping with the JavaScript phase.
I was asking on the stackoverflow (tech site) but I saw someone asking about Chinese to pinyin translation and having moderate luck.
Disclaimer: I do not speak Chinese. This is for my University's Masters project.