Module:Hira-sortkey

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This module will sort text in the Hiragana script. It is used to sort Southern Amami Ōshima, Japanese, Hachijō, Kikai, Translingual, Miyako, Old Japanese, Okinoerabu, Northern Amami Ōshima, Yaeyama, Okinawan, Tokunoshima, Kunigami, Yonaguni, and Yoron. The module should preferably not be called directly from templates or other modules. To use it from a template, use {{sortkey}}. Within a module, use Module:languages#Language:makeSortKey.

For testcases, see Module:Hira-sortkey/testcases.

Functions

makeSortKey(text, lang, sc)
Generates a sortkey for a given piece of text written in the script specified by the code sc, and language specified by the code lang.
When the sort fails, returns nil.

local kata_to_hira = require("Module:ja").kata_to_hira

local export = {}

function export.makeSortKey(text, lang, sc)
	-- Normalize to hiragana.
	text = kata_to_hira(text)
	return require("Module:Hrkt-sortkey").makeSortKey(text, lang, sc)
end

return export