Japanese Text

Japanese characters are encoded in 16-bit, i.e. two bytes. Inside EusLisp, there is no provision to handle Japanese 16-bit character as a representation of Japanese. They are just regarded as a series of byte-encoded characters. The following code will print a Japanese character "AI" that means love in English, if you are using a terminal that can display EUC kanji, like kterm.

(setq AI-str 
      (let ((jstr (make-string 2)))
          (setf (aref jstr 0) #xb0
	        (aref jstr 1) #xa6)
	  jstr))
(print AI-str)

In a similar manner, (intern AI-str) will create a symbol with its printname "AI".

(set (intern AI-str) "love")

Conversion functions for different character codes and Roman-ji representation are provided.

romkan romanji-str [function]

Roman-ji representation is converted into EUC coded Japanese. Numbers are converted into pronunciation in hiragana.

romanji kana-str [function]

kana-str which represents Japanese in hiragana or in katakana coded in EUC is converted into a roman-ji representation. English alphabets and numbers are unchanged.

sjis2euc kana-str [function]

kana-str coded in shift-jis is converted into EUC.

euc2sjis kana-str [function]

kana-str coded in EUC is converted into shift-JIS.

jis2euc kana-str [function]

kana-str coded in EUC is converted into JIS coding, which enters kana mode by ESC\$B and exits by ESC(J. Note that there is no euc2jis function is provided yet.

kana-date time [function]

time is converted a Japanese date pronunciation represented in roman-ji. The default time is the current time.

kana-date time [function]

time is converted a Japanese time pronunciation represented in roman-ji. The default time is the current time.

hira2kata hiragana-str [function]

hiragana-str is converted into katakana representation.

kata2hira katakana-str [function]

katakana-str is converted into hiragana representation.