Kana conversion utilities to convert Japanese katakana and hiragana, along with ASCII characters, into full or half-width forms.
There aer various requirements around storing data, reporting, user presentation, etc. with regard to Japanese scripts and ASCII characters. With many services, data must be sent in a particular format (one example is Japanese CIC credit reporting, where katakana must be sent in half-width, single-byte format, while kanji and any alphabetical ASCII characters (i.e. "romaji") must be sent as full-width, double-byte characters). In other cases, data is stored as all full-width, double-byte characters, awaiting transformation as required by separate utilities. This library aims to help in these conversions, making storing and sending Japanese characters easier.
Simply add to your Cargo.toml:
[dependencies]
kana-conversion = "0.1"
and use in your rust code:
extern crate kana_conversion;
The "to_double_byte" function takes a string slice to convert and a mode. If AsciiOnly is selected, only normal ASCII chars will be converted to double-byte, while if KanaOnly is selected, only half-width katakana will convert, while KanaAndAscii will convert both.
The return is an owned String which holds double-byte characters, converted as specified by the
mode.
Licensed under:
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
Contributions are welcome, and will be subject to the regulations presented in the license indicated above.