README.md

kana

Golang library for convertiong hiragana to romaji, katakana to romaji, romaji to hiragana, and romaji to katakana.

Installation

Simply install with go get:

go get github.com/gojp/kana

Usage

Convert hiragana or katakana to romaji:

s := kana.KanaToRomaji("バナナ") // -> banana
s = kana.KanaToRomaji("かんじ") // -> kanji

Convert romaji to hiragana or katakana:

s := kana.RomajiToHiragana("kanji") // -> かんじ
s = kana.RomajiToKatakana("banana") // -> バナナ

Tell whether strings are written with kana, kanji or latin characters:

kana.IsLatin("banana") // -> true
kana.IsLatin("バナナ") // -> false

kana.IsKana("banana") // -> false
kana.IsKana("バナナ") // -> true

kana.IsKanji("banana") // -> false
kana.IsKanji("減少") // -> true

Normalize a romaji string to a standardized form (from the form given by Google Translate, for example):

kana.NormalizeRomaji("Myūjikku") // -> myu-jikku
kana.NormalizeRomaji("shitsuree") // -> shitsurei

Please feel free to use, contribute, and enjoy! You can also see this in action at nihongo.io.

• Herman Schaaf
• Shawn Smith