https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/jtransliterate

Transliterate [Hirag/Katak]ana to Latin/English and back with Python. Convert half/full-width Japanese text.
https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/jtransliterate

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Transliterate [Hirag/Katak]ana to Latin/English and back with Python. Convert half/full-width Japanese text.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/jtransliterate
• Owner: ryanmcgrath
• License: mit
• Created: 2012-04-11T10:29:03.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-05-05T04:30:02.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-16T08:52:26.880Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Python
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• Size: 113 KB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: readme.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
jTransliterate - [Hirag/Katak]ana to Latin/English & Back

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Sometimes you may want to convert from Hiragana to Katakana, or back again, or...

I dunno, maybe you wanna get the English pronunciation of these words. I'll

be honest and say it's of no concern or interest to me, but I needed this in

Python and so I ported it, figured I'd release it.

It's MIT licensed. Credit for much of this also belongs to Kim Ahlström and

his linguistics/etc work on **[Ve](https://github.com/Kimtaro/ve/blob/master/lib/providers/japanese_transliterators.rb)**.

Installation

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    pip install jTransliterate

Examples && Documentation

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``` python

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from jTransliterate import JapaneseTransliterator

# Transliterate from Latin/English to [Hirag/Katak]ana

x = JapaneseTransliterator(u'kanazawa')

print x.transliterate_from_latn_to_hrkt()

# Should print "かなざわ"

# Transliterate from Hiragana to Latin/English

b = JapaneseTransliterator(u'かなざわ')

print b.transliterate_from_hira_to_latn()

# Should print "kanazawa"

# Transliterate from either Hiragana or Katakana to Latin/English

print b.transliterate_from_hrkt_to_latn(text = u'カナザワ')

# Should print "kanazawa"

# Transliterate from Katakan to Hiragana (You... probably never need to do this)

print b.transliterate_from_kana_to_hira(text = u'キットカート')

# Should print "きっとかーと"

# Transliterate from Hiragana to Katakana

print b.transliterate_from_hira_to_kana(text = u'かなざわ')

# Should print "カナザワ" 

# If you want to convert between half/full width kana, you can use the following

# functions. I didn't care enough to do demos here. ;|

b.transliterate_from_halfwidth_to_fullwidth()

b.transliterate_from_fullwidth_to_halfwidth()

```

Questions, Comments, Complaints and/or etc

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