Lingua::JA::Kana - Kata-Romaji related utilities

$Id: Kana.pm,v 0.5 2011/06/10 10:23:43 dankogai Exp dankogai $

    use Lingua::JA::Kana;

    my $hiragana = romaji2hiragana("ohayou");
    my $katakana = romaji2katakana("ohasumi");
    my $romaji   = kana2romaji($str);

This module is a simple utility to convert katakana, hiragana, and romaji at ease. This module makes use of utf8 semantics which is introduced in Perl 5.8.0 and became stable enough in Perl 5.8.1 so you need Perl 5.8.1 or better.

Also note that strings in this module must be utf8-flagged. If they are not, you can use Encode to do so.

  use Encode;
  use Lingua::JA::Kana
  my $romaji = kana2romaji(decode_utf8 $octet);

See Encode, perluniintro, and perlunicode for details.

This module exports functions below:

Converts all occurance of hiragana to katakana.

  my $hiragana = hiragana2katakana($str);

hira2kata

its alias.

Converts all occurance of katakana to hiragana. kata2hira is an alias thereof.

  my $katakana = katakana2hiragana($str);

kata2hira

its alias.

Converts all occurance of romaji to katakana.

  my $romaji = romaji2hiragana($str);

Converts all occurance of romaji to hiragana.

  my $katakana = romaji2hiragana($str);

Converts all occurance of kana (both katakana and hiragana) to romaji.

  my $romaji = kana2romaji($str);

Converts all occurance of hankaku to zenkaku.

  my $romaji = hankaku2zenkaku($str);

Converts all occurance of zenkaku to hankaku.

  my $romaji = zenkaku2hankaku($str);

To install this module, run the following commands:

    perl Makefile.PL
    make
    make test
    make install

Dan Kogai, <dankogai at dan.co.jp>

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-lingua-ja-kana at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Lingua-JA-Kana. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Lingua::JA::Kana

You can also look for information at:

* RT: CPAN's request tracker

http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Lingua-JA-Kana

* AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

http://annocpan.org/dist/Lingua-JA-Kana

* CPAN Ratings

http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Lingua-JA-Kana

* Search CPAN

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Lingua-JA-Kana

Lingua::JA::Romaji

Copyright 2007 Dan Kogai, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.