NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

use Lingua::JA::Regular::Unicode qw/alnum_z2h hiragana2katakana space_z2h/;
alnum_z2h("Ａ１");                                        # => "A1"
hiragana2katakana("ほげ");                                # => "ホゲ"
space_z2h("\x{0300}");                                    # => 半角スペース

DESCRIPTION

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

alnum_z2h

convert alphabet and numbers ZENKAKU to HANKAKU.

alnum_h2z

convert alphabet and numbers 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

SEE ALSO

Lingua::JA::Regular

LICENSE

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