jaconv

jaconv (Japanese Converter) is interconverter for Hiragana, Katakana, Hankaku (half-width character) and Zenkaku (full-width character)

Japanese README is available.

INSTALLATION

$ pip install jaconv

USAGE

See also document

import jaconv

# Hiragana to Katakana
jaconv.hira2kata('ともえまみ')
# => 'トモエマミ'

# Hiragana to half-width Katakana
jaconv.hira2hkata('ともえまみ')
# => 'ﾄﾓｴﾏﾐ'

# Katakana to Hiragana
jaconv.kata2hira('巴マミ')
# => '巴まみ'

# half-width character to full-width character
# default parameters are followings: kana=True, ascii=False, digit=False
jaconv.h2z('ﾃｨﾛ･ﾌｨﾅｰﾚ')
# => 'ティロ・フィナーレ'

# half-width character to full-width character
# but only ascii characters
jaconv.h2z('abc', kana=False, ascii=True, digit=False)
# => 'ａｂｃ'

# half-width character to full-width character
# but only digit characters
jaconv.h2z('123', kana=False, ascii=False, digit=True)
# => '１２３'

# half-width character to full-width character
# except half-width Katakana
jaconv.h2z('ｱabc123', kana=False, digit=True, ascii=True)
# => 'ｱａｂｃ１２３'

# an alias of h2z
jaconv.hankaku2zenkaku('ﾃｨﾛ･ﾌｨﾅｰﾚabc123')
# => 'ティロ・フィナーレabc123'

# full-width character to half-width character
# default parameters are followings: kana=True, ascii=False, digit=False
jaconv.z2h('ティロ・フィナーレ')
# => 'ﾃｨﾛ・ﾌｨﾅｰﾚ'

# full-width character to half-width character
# but only ascii characters
jaconv.z2h('ａｂｃ', kana=False, ascii=True, digit=False)
# => 'abc'

# full-width character to half-width character
# but only digit characters
jaconv.z2h('１２３', kana=False, ascii=False, digit=True)
# => '123'

# full-width character to half-width character
# except full-width Katakana
jaconv.z2h('アａｂｃ１２３', kana=False, digit=True, ascii=True)
# => 'アabc123'

# an alias of z2h
jaconv.zenkaku2hankaku('ティロ・フィナーレａｂｃ１２３')
# => 'ﾃｨﾛ･ﾌｨﾅｰﾚａｂｃ１２３'

# normalize
jaconv.normalize('ティロ･フィナ〜レ', 'NFKC')
# => 'ティロ・フィナーレ'

# Hiragana to alphabet
jaconv.kana2alphabet('じゃぱん')
# => 'japan'

# Alphabet to Hiragana
jaconv.alphabet2kana('japan')
# => 'じゃぱん'

# Katakana to Alphabet
jaconv.kata2alphabet('ケツイ')
# => 'ketsui'

# Alphabet to Katakana
jaconv.alphabet2kata('namba')
# => 'ナンバ'

# Hiragana to Julius's phoneme format
jaconv.hiragana2julius('てんきすごくいいいいいい')
# => 't e N k i s u g o k u i:'

NOTE

jaconv.normalize method expand unicodedata.normalize for Japanese language processing.

'〜' => 'ー'
'～' => 'ー'
"’" => "'"
'”'=> '"'
'“' => '``'
'―' => '-'
'‐' => '-'
'˗' => '-'
'֊' => '-'
'‐' => '-'
'‑' => '-'
'‒' => '-'
'–' => '-'
'⁃' => '-'
'⁻' => '-'
'₋' => '-'
'−' => '-'
'﹣' => 'ー'
'－' => 'ー'
'—' => 'ー'
'―' => 'ー'
'━' => 'ー'
'─' => 'ー'