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Extension methods for conversion of Japanese characters, e.g. hiragana (ひらがな) and katakana (カタカナ).

Published
Apr 10, 2024
2y ago
Total Downloads
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Install

dotnet add package MyNihongo.KanaConverter --version 1.0.2
ProductVersions
.NET Standard
netstandard2.0

README

Version NuGet downloads
Extension methods for kana conversion.

  • ToRomaji() - convert Hiragana (ひらがな) or Katakana (カタカナ) to romaji.
var romaji = "ひらがな・カタカナ".ToRomaji(); // result "hiraganakatakana"

StringBuilder with Microsoft.Extensions.ObjectPool

using Microsoft.Extensions.ObjectPool;

var stringBuilderPool = new DefaultObjectPoolProvider()
	.CreateStringBuilderPool();

for (var i = 0; i < 1_000_000; i++)
{
	var romaji = "ひらがな・カタカナ".ToRomaji(stringBuilderPool);
}

Benchmark

Convert a kana string of 1,000,000 characters to romaji.

Method Mean Error StdDev Gen0 Gen1 Gen2 Allocated
MyNihongo 9.756 ms 0.1463 ms 0.1368 ms 984.3750 984.3750 984.3750 7.54 MB
MyNihongoMultiple 962.581 ms 7.2602 ms 6.7912 ms 99000.0000 99000.0000 99000.0000 754.29 MB
WanaKana_Sharp 11.545 ms 0.1239 ms 0.1159 ms 796.8750 781.2500 484.3750 7.62 MB
WanaKana_SharpMultiple 1,147.683 ms 14.6285 ms 12.9678 ms 80000.0000 79000.0000 49000.0000 761.87 MB

WanaKana_Net (1.0.0) threw a StackOverflow exception.

Changes from Previous Version

v1.0.1v1.0.2
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