NAME
    Lingua::JA::Regular::Unicode - convert japanese chars.

SYNOPSIS
        use Lingua::JA::Regular::Unicode qw/alnum_z2h hiragana2katakana space_z2h/;
        alnum_z2h("A1");                                        # => "A1"
        hiragana2katakana("ほげ");                                # => "ホゲ"
        space_z2h("\x{0300}");                                    # => 半角スペース

DESCRIPTION
    Lingua::JA::Regular::Unicode is regularizer.

    alnum_z2h
        convert alphabet and numbers ZENKAKU to HANKAKU.

    alnum_h2z
        convert alphabet and numbers HANKAKU to ZENKAKU.

    space_z2h
        convert spaces ZENKAKU to HANKAKU.

    space_h2z
        convert spaces HANKAKU to ZENKAKU.

    katakana_z2h
        convert katakanas ZENKAKU to HANKAKU.

    katakana_h2z
        convert katakanas HANKAKU to ZENKAKU.

    katakana2hiragana
        convert KATAKANA to HIRAGANA.

        This method ignores following chars:

            KATAKANA LETTER VA
            KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RE
            KATAKANA LETTER SMALL HU
            KATAKANA LETTER SMALL HI
            KATAKANA LETTER SMALL HE
            KATAKANA DIGRAPH KOTO
            KATAKANA LETTER SMALL SU
            KATAKANA LETTER SMALL HO
            KATAKANA LETTER SMALL SI
            KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RI
            KATAKANA LETTER VE
            KATAKANA LETTER SMALL TO
            KATAKANA LETTER SMALL KU
            KATAKANA LETTER VO
            KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RO
            KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RA
            KATAKANA LETTER SMALL MU
            KATAKANA LETTER SMALL HA
            KATAKANA LETTER VI
            KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RU
            KATAKANA LETTER SMALL NU
            KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
            HALFWIDTH KATAKANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK
            HALFWIDTH KATAKANA VOICED SOUND MARK
            HALFWIDTH KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT

    hiragana2katakana
        convert HIRAGANA to KATAKANA.

        This method ignores following chars:

            HIRAGANA DIGRAPH YORI

AUTHOR
    Tokuhiro Matsuno <tokuhirom AAJKLFJEF@ GMAIL COM>

THANKS To
        takefumi kimura - the author of L<Lingua::JA::Regular>
        dankogai

SEE ALSO
    Lingua::JA::Regular

LICENSE
    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself.