NAME

Lingua::JA::Regular::Unicode - convert japanese chars.

SYNOPSIS

    use Lingua::JA::Regular::Unicode qw/alnum_z2h hiragana2katakana space_z2h/;
    alnum_z2h("XX");                                        # => "A1"
    hiragana2katakana("XX");                                # => "XX"
    space_z2h("\x{0300}");                                    # => XXXXXX

DESCRIPTION

Lingua::JA::Regular::Unicode is regularizer.

alnum_z2h

Convert alphabet, numbers and symbols ZENKAKU to HANKAKU.

Symbols contains >, <.

Yes, it's bit strange. But so, this behaviour is needed by historical reason.

alnum_h2z

Convert alphabet, numbers and symbols HANKAKU to ZENKAKU.

space_z2h

convert spaces ZENKAKU to HANKAKU.

space_h2z

convert spaces HANKAKU to ZENKAKU.

katakana_z2h

convert katakanas ZENKAKU to HANKAKU.

katakana_h2z

convert katakanas HANKAKU to ZENKAKU.

katakana2hiragana

convert KATAKANA to HIRAGANA.

This method ignores following chars:

    KATAKANA LETTER VA
    KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RE
    KATAKANA LETTER SMALL HU
    KATAKANA LETTER SMALL HI
    KATAKANA LETTER SMALL HE
    KATAKANA DIGRAPH KOTO
    KATAKANA LETTER SMALL SU
    KATAKANA LETTER SMALL HO
    KATAKANA LETTER SMALL SI
    KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RI
    KATAKANA LETTER VE
    KATAKANA LETTER SMALL TO
    KATAKANA LETTER SMALL KU
    KATAKANA LETTER VO
    KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RO
    KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RA
    KATAKANA LETTER SMALL MU
    KATAKANA LETTER SMALL HA
    KATAKANA LETTER VI
    KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RU
    KATAKANA LETTER SMALL NU
    KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
    HALFWIDTH KATAKANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK
    HALFWIDTH KATAKANA VOICED SOUND MARK
    HALFWIDTH KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT

hiragana2katakana

convert HIRAGANA to KATAKANA.

This method ignores following chars:

    HIRAGANA DIGRAPH YORI

AUTHOR

Tokuhiro Matsuno <tokuhirom AAJKLFJEF@ GMAIL COM>

THANKS To

    takefumi kimura - the author of L<Lingua::JA::Regular>
    dankogai

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