From: William J Poser (wjposer@ldc.upenn.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 24 2010 - 16:52:46 CST
Ed Trager wrote:
>would I be correct to assume that I cannot automatically convert
>the kJapaneseOn and kJapaneseKun fields from romanization into kana?
Actually, I wouldn't abandon hope. You'd have to look more carefully
at what is there, but such a mapping might be possible since the
Hepburn romanization differs from the Kunrei romanization primarily
in being subphonemic. For example, where the Kunrei-shiki romanization of
the sa-gyo is:
sa si su se so
the Hepburn romanization is:
sa shi su se so
Similarly the Kunrei-shiki ta-gyo is:
ta ti tu te to
while the Hepbrun version is:
ta chi tsu te to
In cases like these, you can map both <tsu> and <tu> to U+3064 TU,
both <si> and <shi> to U+3057 SI, etc.
Bill
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