konj

n. portmanteau of kana, conv(ert) and japanese

Convert between various Japanese scripts (hiragana, katakana, romaji)

current status

Basic conversion from romaji to hiragana, katakana

next steps

• ~~handle capital letters in romaji input~~
• ~~handle whitespace in romaji input~~
• ~~handle punctuation: , and .~~
• output json (flag)
• make the program unix-pipe-able only
• code cleanup:
  • ~~refactor generic transformation fns~~
  • ~~move out the static maps into another namepsace~~
  • ~~eager load the maps once during the program lifetime~~

upcoming

• Handle mixed-input (hiragana + romaji etc.)
• Conversion from any input to all other inputs
  • ~~hiragana → romaji, katakana~~
  • katakana → romaji, hiragana
• Conversion from Kana to Kanji
  • this would most likely be something like henkan in IMEs

use

``` ± cargo build Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.00s

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romaji to kana

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± echo "kippu" | ./target/debug/konj 🍱 Konj: convert from one japanese script to all 🍱

You entered in romaji. Converting to kana... hiragana: きっぷ katakana: キップ

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hiragana to romaji

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± echo "しんかんせん" | ./target/debug/konj 🍱 Konj: convert from one japanese script to all 🍱

hiragana: しんかんせん katakana: シンカンセン romaji: shinkansen ```