# 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](
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Lingua::JA::Regular)
# LICENSE
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.
