CHANGELOG of pinyin4j

version 2.5.0 (June 19, 2006)

ADDED: convertion to Tongyong Pinyin, Wade-Giles, MPS2 (Mandarin Phonetic Symbols 2), Yale and Gwoyeu Romatzyh
UPDATED: Declare one interface as deprecated; it will be removed in next release.

// Main Features //
1. Support convertion from Chinese (both Simplified and Tranditional) character into various Chinese Romanization representations
1.1 Hanyu Pinyin
1.2 Tongyong Pinyin
1.3 Wade-Giles
1.4 MPS2 (Mandarin Phonetic Symbols 2)
1.5 Yale
1.6 Gwoyeu Romatzyh

2. Support multiple pronounciations of a single Chinese character

3. Support several output format of Hanyu Pinyin
3.1. Uppercase or lowercase
3.2. v or u: or unicode ü
3.3. unicode output with tone numbers, with tone marks or without tone

version 2.0.0 (April 16, 2006)

ADD: implement output format of unicode with tone marks. For example, now pinyin4j can output "lǚ"
CHANGE: use a GUI demo to replace the command-line demo. GUI demo works well on most of platforms supporting Unicode font.

// Main Features //
1. Convert Simplified Chinese into Hanyu Pinyin representations
2. Support multiple pronounciations
3. Several output format 
3.1. Uppercase or lowercase
3.2. v or u: or unicode ü
3.3. unicode output with tone numbers, with tone marks or without tone

version 1.1.0 (April 6, 2006)

ADD: add output unicode form 'ü' for character u:
CHANGE: release the library using jar package file

// Main Features //
1. Convert simplified Chinese into Hanyu Pinyin representations
2. Support multiple pronounciations
3. Several output format 
3.1. Uppercase or lowercase
3.2. v or u: or unicode ü
3.3. with tone numbers or without tone

version 1.0.0 (March 27, 2006)

// Main Features //
1. Convert simplified Chinese into Hanyu Pinyin representations
2. Support multiple pronounciations
3. Several output format 
3.1. Uppercase or lowercase
3.2. v or u:
3.3. with tone numbers or without tone