Japanese support

[dmyers]

Is there a way to get Japanese characters to work?

[mac2000]

All you need to do (If for some reason you can not make pull request) is:

1. Provide transliteration rules, e.g. 'ї' => 'ji' in any format
   (they will be added to src/Slugify.php rules array)
2. Provide tests cases, e.g. 'Україна' => 'Ukrajina'
   (they will be added to tests/SlugifyTest.php data provider array)

Hope that helps

[picks44]

+1 for the addition of the Japanese

[xoco70]

+1 for the addition of the Japanese

[SuN-80]

I gave it a try some months ago and it's more complicated to implement than Chinese. But I've stopped working on this because nobody was able help me understand why my Chinese pull request failed 2 checks, while it works perfectly (#158).

[wandersonwhcr]

Please, can you rebase your branch to master?

[EraYaN]

Something like

transliterator_transliterate("Any-Latin; NFD; [:Nonspacing Mark:] Remove; NFC; [:Punctuation:] Remove; Lower();", $string)

Already transliterates some Japanese, although kanji is still very much an issue, It seem to just take the first reading it can find.

A better option would probably be something like MeCab.

Some example implementations:
https://github.com/MikimotoH/furigana
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/3918629684

It does add a C++ dependency: https://github.com/taku910/mecab
There seem some PHP binding projects like this: https://github.com/rsky/php-mecab

This could do a runtime check and keep current behaviour if it is not available, and enable it when mecab is available.

[DemigodCode]

I think that issue can be closed.