Transliterate [Hirag/Katak]ana to Latin/English and back with Python. Convert half/full-width Japanese text.
+ +This project is maintained by ryanmcgrath
+ + +Sometimes you may want to convert from Hiragana to Katakana, or back again, or... +I dunno, maybe you wanna get the English pronunciation of these words. I'll +be honest and say it's of no concern or interest to me, but I needed this in +Python and so I ported it, figured I'd release it.
+ +It's MIT licensed. Credit for much of this also belongs to Kim Ahlström and +his linguistics/etc work on Ve.
+ +pip install jTransliterate
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+from jTransliterate import JapaneseTransliterator
+
+# Transliterate from Latin/English to [Hirag/Katak]ana
+x = JapaneseTransliterator(u'kanazawa')
+print x.transliterate_from_latn_to_hrkt()
+# Should print "かなざわ"
+
+# Transliterate from Hiragana to Latin/English
+b = JapaneseTransliterator(u'かなざわ')
+print b.transliterate_from_hira_to_latn()
+# Should print "kanazawa"
+
+# Transliterate from either Hiragana or Katakana to Latin/English
+print b.transliterate_from_hrkt_to_latn(text = u'カナザワ')
+# Should print "kanazawa"
+
+# Transliterate from Katakan to Hiragana (You... probably never need to do this)
+print b.transliterate_from_kana_to_hira(text = u'キットカート')
+# Should print "きっとかーと"
+
+# Transliterate from Hiragana to Katakana
+print b.transliterate_from_hira_to_kana(text = u'かなざわ')
+# Should print "カナザワ"
+
+# If you want to convert between half/full width kana, you can use the following
+# functions. I didn't care enough to do demos here. ;|
+b.transliterate_from_halfwidth_to_fullwidth()
+b.transliterate_from_fullwidth_to_halfwidth()
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