Katakanize Japanese characters — strj

Converts Japanese hiragana to katakana. It is almost similar to stringi::stri_trans_general(text, "hira-kana"), however, this implementation can also handle some additional symbols such as Japanese kana ligature (aka. goryaku-gana).

Usage

strj_katakanize(text)

Arguments

text: Character vector.

Value

A character vector.

Examples

strj_katakanize(
  c(
    paste0(
      "\u3042\u306e\u30a4\u30fc\u30cf\u30c8",
      "\u30fc\u30f4\u30a9\u306e\u3059\u304d",
      "\u3068\u304a\u3063\u305f\u98a8"
    ),
    "\u672c\u65e5\u309f\u304b\u304d\u6c37\u89e3\u7981"
  )
)
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