Conversion to half-width katakana

[w]

Hi

This topic might have appeared before. However I could not find the
correct key word to find those so pardon me for posting it again here.

Currently I need to convert Japanese text to half-width katakana in
Shift-JIS so the bank feed will accept the file.

I managed to convert the unicode character into Shift-JIS characters.
However I still need to

1. convert kanji, hiragana into katakana
2. convert full-width katakana to half width

It seems that VB.NET has support to convert from hiragana to Katakana,
and from full-width to half-width. However I haven't seen kanji to
katakana conversion. To my limited knowledge in Japanese I think this
might not be possible since it is not a 1-1 relationship. However I
just want to confirm it.

Thanks a lot

Mark

[Jim Breen]

Post by w
Currently I need to convert Japanese text to half-width katakana in
Shift-JIS so the bank feed will accept the file.

Sigh. Information-processing leaps back to the 1970s.

Post by w
I managed to convert the unicode character into Shift-JIS characters.
However I still need to
1. convert kanji, hiragana into katakana
2. convert full-width katakana to half width
It seems that VB.NET has support to convert from hiragana to Katakana,
and from full-width to half-width. However I haven't seen kanji to
katakana conversion. To my limited knowledge in Japanese I think this
might not be possible since it is not a 1-1 relationship. However I
just want to confirm it.

Google for "kakasi", which is a system for turning kanji to kana,
romaji, etc. It may have a half-width katakana option. It's not 1-1,
and the results should be checked carefully.

Basis Technology's "uniconv" utility does half-width output.
You can get a copy from the Monash ftp site.

[w]

Post by Jim Breen

Post by w
It seems that VB.NET has support to convert from hiragana to Katakana,
and from full-width to half-width. However I haven't seen kanji to
katakana conversion. To my limited knowledge in Japanese I think this
might not be possible since it is not a 1-1 relationship. However I
just want to confirm it.

Google for "kakasi", which is a system for turning kanji to kana,
romaji, etc. It may have a half-width katakana option. It's not 1-1,
and the results should be checked carefully.

Thanks a lot, after lots of effort I finally integrated into the
VB.NET environment.
Now I am trying to understand what arguments I need to do the
transformations.
It's a pity that there is no English API available.

Post by Jim Breen
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Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia