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Hepburn. Convert Japanese characters to and from Roman letters.

github.com/lovell/hepburn

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Updates

July 2026

Bump actions/checkout from 7.0.0 to 7.0.1 (#30) Jul 21
Bump actions/setup-node from 6.4.0 to 7.0.0 (#29) Jul 15
Release v1.3.0 Jul 2
CI: Pin 3rd party actions, make updates via dependabot Jul 2
Romanise katakana ン as N' before vowels and Y, matching hiragana (#28) Jul 2

September 2025

Release v1.2.2 Sep 28
Prerelease v1.2.2-rc.0 Sep 28
Vendor bulk-replace dependency Sep 28

September 2023

Release v1.2.1 Sep 8
CI: Add Node.js 16, 18, 20 Sep 8
Publish to npm using inclusive 'files' property Sep 8
Use RegExp singletons to improve performance (#27) Sep 8

December 2020

CI: switch from Travis to Actions Dec 3

August 2020

Release v1.2.0 Aug 5
CI: use LTS versions of Node.js Aug 5
Add support for halfwidth katakana (#23) Aug 5

April 2020

Release v1.1.3 Apr 11
Add splitting features for kana and romaji (#18) Apr 11
Add 2020 to list of copyright years Apr 4
Release v1.1.2 Apr 4
Correct alternative CH/SH spellings (#15) Apr 4

November 2019

Update CI to latest, supported versions Nov 21