go-kakasi is a C binding library of kakasi. Just wraps pre-built library, you can use kakasi in your Go program.

• Go: We built with 1.16beta1, I appreciate if you can ensure it's be able to build with older version :-)
• gcc

This package bundles prebuilt static library, therefore you don't worry what cgo does:

package main

import (
  "log"
  "github.com/ysugimoto/go-kakasi"
)

func main() {
  text := "日本語"
  transformed, err := kakasi.Transform(text, kakasi.WithKanji(kakasi.ASCII))
  if err != nil {
    log.Fatalln(err)
  }
  log.Printf("Transformed: %s -> %s\n", text, transformed)
}

go-kakasi accepts transform option as kakasi.WithXXX which corresponds to original kakasi transformation mode.

Currently, this package uses kakasi stable version of 2.3.6, build and tested following environments:

• darwin: OS X 10.15.7 (Catalina)
• linux: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial, in docker)
• linux: Debian 10 (buster, in CircleCI using go1.15.7)

If you want to build kakasi for your environment, You can rebuilt static library as following:

git checkout https://github.com/ysugimoto/go-kakasi
cd go-kakasi
# Build kakasi in your environment
make all
# Note that if you're linux, it will be overriden `deps/linux/*` files.

I appreciate it you let me know some other environment also works fine (especially Windows!)

GNU General Public License, vesion 2 https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html

Yoshiaki Sugimoto

And, very thanks for kakasi's anthor: Hironobu Takahasi