Kanji characters not being translated, but Hiragana characters are translated

[marv72]

kana.IsKanji("減少") recognises that it has Kanji characters but KanaToRomaji does not translate to Romaji it just leaves it as Kanji, Go Playground link below:

https://play.golang.org/p/qxeMAYoSqtk

So I can translate Hiragana characters but not Kanji characters, is that by design?

[shawnps]

Hi @marv72 yes, this library only converts between hiragana, katakana, and romaji. We built this many years ago for use in our Japanese dictionary https://nihongo.io. I suppose we only did hiragana/katakana support for purposes of speed -- kanji would require building a large data structure and would slow the library down.

We use this library on nihongo.io to detect whether a word is Latin-based, and if it is we convert it to hiragana and katakana and search:

https://github.com/gojp/nihongo/blob/master/lib/dictionary/dictionary.go#L104-L110