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, 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

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.