# encoding: utf8 """Provides `romanize()` for romanizing simple Japanese text.""" _roomaji_kana = { u'ア': 'a', u'イ': 'i', u'ウ': 'u', u'エ': 'e', u'オ': 'o', u'カ': 'ka', u'キ': 'ki', u'ク': 'ku', u'ケ': 'ke', u'コ': 'ko', u'サ': 'sa', u'シ': 'shi', u'ス': 'su', u'セ': 'se', u'ソ': 'so', u'タ': 'ta', u'チ': 'chi', u'ツ': 'tsu', u'テ': 'te', u'ト': 'to', u'ナ': 'na', u'ニ': 'ni', u'ヌ': 'nu', u'ネ': 'ne', u'ノ': 'no', u'ハ': 'ha', u'ヒ': 'hi', u'フ': 'fu', u'ヘ': 'he', u'ホ': 'ho', u'マ': 'ma', u'ミ': 'mi', u'ム': 'mu', u'メ': 'me', u'モ': 'mo', u'ヤ': 'ya', u'ユ': 'yu', u'ヨ': 'yo', u'ラ': 'ra', u'リ': 'ri', u'ル': 'ru', u'レ': 're', u'ロ': 'ro', u'ワ': 'wa', u'ヰ': 'wi', u'ヱ': 'we', u'ヲ': 'wo', u'ン': 'n', u'ガ': 'ga', u'ギ': 'gi', u'グ': 'gu', u'ゲ': 'ge', u'ゴ': 'go', u'ザ': 'za', u'ジ': 'ji', u'ズ': 'zu', u'ゼ': 'ze', u'ゾ': 'zo', u'ダ': 'da', u'ヂ': 'ji', u'ヅ': 'dzu', u'デ': 'de', u'ド': 'do', u'バ': 'ba', u'ビ': 'bi', u'ブ': 'bu', u'ベ': 'be', u'ボ': 'bo', u'パ': 'pa', u'ピ': 'pi', u'プ': 'pu', u'ペ': 'pe', u'ポ': 'po', } _roomaji_youon = { u'ャ': 'ya', u'ュ': 'yu', u'ョ': 'yo', u'ゃ': 'ya', u'ゅ': 'yu', u'ょ': 'yo', } # XXX If romanize() ever handles hiragana, it will need to make sure that the # preceding character was a katakana # This does not include every small kana combination, but should include every # one used in a Pokémon name. An exhaustive list would be.. very long _roomaji_small_kana = { u'ァ': 'a', u'ィ': 'i', u'ゥ': 'u', u'ェ': 'e', u'ォ': 'o', } _roomaji_small_kana_combos = { u'チェ': 'che', u'シェ': 'she', u'テァ': 'tha', u'ティ': 'ti', u'テゥ': 'thu', u'テェ': 'tye', u'テォ': 'tho', u'デァ': 'dha', u'ディ': 'di', u'デゥ': 'dhu', u'デェ': 'dye', u'デォ': 'dho', u'ファ': 'fa', u'フィ': 'fi', u'ホゥ': 'hu', u'フェ': 'fe', u'フォ': 'fo', } def romanize(string): """Converts a string of kana to roomaji.""" vowels = ['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u', 'y'] characters = [] last_kana = None # Used for ー; っ or ッ; ん or ン last_char = None # Used for small kana combos for char in string: # Full-width Latin if ord(char) >= 0xff11 and ord(char) <= 0xff5e: if last_kana == 'sokuon': raise ValueError("Sokuon cannot precede Latin characters.") char = chr(ord(char) - 0xff11 + 0x31) characters.append(char) last_kana = None # Small vowel kana elif char in _roomaji_small_kana: combo = last_char + char if combo in _roomaji_small_kana_combos: characters[-1] = _roomaji_small_kana_combos[combo] else: # If we don't know what it is... act dumb and treat it as a # full-size vowel. Better than bailing, and seems to occur a # lot, e.g. ピィ is "pii" characters.append(_roomaji_small_kana[char]) # Youon elif char in _roomaji_youon: if last_kana[-1] != 'i' or last_kana == 'i': raise ValueError("Youon must follow an -i sound.") # Drop the -i and append the ya/yu/yo sound new_sound = _roomaji_youon[char] if last_kana in ['chi', 'shi', 'ji']: # Strip the y- new_char = last_kana[:-1] + new_sound[1:] else: new_char = last_kana[:-1] + new_sound characters[-1] = new_char last_kana = new_char # Sokuon elif char in (u'っ', u'ッ'): # Remember it and double the consonant next time around last_kana = 'sokuon' # Extended vowel or n elif char == u'ー': if last_kana[-1] not in vowels: raise ValueError(u"'ー' must follow by a vowel.") characters.append(last_kana[-1]) last_kana = None # Regular ol' kana elif char in _roomaji_kana: kana = _roomaji_kana[char] if last_kana == 'sokuon': if kana[0] in vowels: raise ValueError("Sokuon cannot precede a vowel.") characters.append(kana[0]) elif last_kana == 'n' and kana[0] in vowels: characters.append("'") characters.append(kana) last_kana = kana # Not Japanese? else: if last_kana == 'sokuon': raise ValueError("Sokuon must be followed by another kana.") characters.append(char) last_kana = None last_char = char if last_kana == 'sokuon': raise ValueError("Sokuon cannot be the last character.") return unicode(''.join(characters))