tenji

Converts Japanese text to 点字 (Braille).

Installation

$ npm install tenji

Usage

const tenji = require('tenji');

tenji.toTenji('こんにちわ'); // '⠪⠴⠇⠗⠄'

tenji.fromTenji('⠱⠜⠒⠅⠑'); // 'さよーなら'

//Braille Kanji is supported!
tenji.toTenji('漢点字', {kanji: true}); // '⢱⢚⠷⣸⠓⢜'

tenji.fromTenji('⠱⣎⣁⠾⡤⢲⢂⠆⡲⠦⠤⡄', {kanji: true}); //'東京スカイツリー'

tenji.toTenji(text [, options])

Converts Japanese text to Tenji.

options

• preserveSpaces (boolean): Preserves any space characters in text. Otherwise all spaces are converted into U+2800 (⠀). Defaults to false.
• lowerDots (boolean): Use lower 6 dots instead of upper 6 dots. Defaults to false. This option is force to be true if kanji option is enabled.
• kanji (boolean): Enables 漢点字 support.
• noNormalize (boolean): Prevents text from being text.normalize('NFKC').

tenji.fromTenji(text [, options])

Converts Tenji to Japanese Text.

options

• space (string): Space character generated by U+2800 (⠀). Defaults to U+0020 ( ).
• kanji (boolean): Enables 漢点字 support.

License

MIT

Changelog

• v1.0.4: Fix the bug that 「」 and （） are converted to 第二かぎ and 第二括弧 respectively, where they should be 第一かぎ and 第一括弧. Also, support emission of 二重大文字符 when appropriate.
• v1.0.3: Fix the bug that "⠰" which is used as 読点 also made next hiragana 濁音.
• v1.0.2: Can now convert some more 記号s.
• v1.0.1: Bug fix
• v1.0.0

References

• http://www.yoihari.net/tenji/kantenji
• http://www.yoihari.net/tenji/tkigo.htm
• http://www.braille.jp/_files/00006828/kaiteian.pdf