At a Glance

Detect if a romanized japanese string is a palindrome.

Requirements

This project is built on top of and requires:

• mac and unix-like systems are welcome (sorry, hasn't been tested on windows)
• ruby 2.0.0-p247

Installation

$ git clone git@github.com:hendrauzia/japanese-palindrome.git
$ bundle install

How to Use

The following examples will return "<text>" is a palindrome!, otherwise it will return "<text>" is not a palindrome!.

$ cd japanese-palindrome

$ bin/japanese-palindrome "Shikishi"
"Shikishi" is a palindrome!

$ bin/japanese-palindrome "Dansu ga sunda"
"Dansu ga sunda" is a palindrome!

$ bin/japanese-palindrome "Karui kibin na koneko nanbiki iruka"
"Karui kibin na koneko nanbiki iruka" is a palindrome!

$ bin/japanese-palindrome "Watashi no ongaku"
"Watashi no ongaku" is not a palindrome!

References

Japanese Hiragana syllables taken from:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana#Table_of_hiragana
• http://www.japanese-lesson.com/resources/pdf/hiragana_chart.pdf

List of japanese palindrome can be seen at:

• http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/palindromes.html

Limitations

It still has some limitations to detect palindrome on sentences like these:

Ika ni mo nigai
Nagasaki ya no yaki sakana
Hei no aru ano ie

The above sentences, even if it's a palindrome, it will return "<text>" is not a palindrome!.