japanese-characters

Analyze strings to detect if they contain Japanese characters.

Detects Hiragana and Katakana characters.

Installation

npm install japanese-characters

Usage

The module exports an object with three values:

• hiragana, an array of all the Hiragana characters
• katakana, an array of all the Katakana characters
• presentIn(inputString), a function that returns a Boolean indicating whether the given inputString contains Japanese characters

const japaneseCharacters = require('japanese-characters')
 
console.log(japaneseCharacters.presentIn('ブートキャンプ')
// true
 
console.log(japaneseCharacters.presentIn('some English string')
// false

Ordered by Frequency

To make searching more efficient, the characters are sorted by frequency of use. This order was determined by counting the number of each characters in the Japanese Wikipedia Corpus.

Tests

npm install
npm test

Dependencies

None

Dev Dependencies

• lodash: Lodash modular utilities.
• tap: A Test-Anything-Protocol library for JavaScript

License

MIT