Module:Transliterate Korean

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This template provides automatic transliteration of Korean text into the Revised Romanization (RR) or McCune-Reischauer (MR) systems, with special handling for names.

Automatically determines the appropriate transliteration system and applies any necessary modifications for surnames and given names.

All templates using this support the following parameters:

• text – the Korean text to be transliterated.
• system – the Romanization system to use. Options are "RR" for Revised Romanization or "MR" for McCune-Reischauer. Defaults to "RR".
• name – if set to "true", the function will apply special rules for names, including common modified forms for surnames and hyphenating given names. Defaults to "false".

Examples

To transliterate the name "이민호" using the Revised Romanization system with name-specific rules:

{{Transliterate Korean
| text = 이민호
| system = RR
| name = true
}}

which produces:

Other Examples:

• Using MR for a non-name text:

{{Transliterate Korean
| text = 한글
| system = MR
}}

• Using RR without name-specific rules:

{{Transliterate Korean
| text = 한국어
| system = RR
}}

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-- Initialize the module
local p = {}

-- Import the Hangul data module
local data = require 'Module:Hangul/data'

-- Known exceptions for Korean surnames
local surname_exceptions = {
    ["김"] = "Kim",
    ["이"] = "Lee",
    ["박"] = "Park",
    ["최"] = "Choi",
    ["정"] = "Jung",
    ["강"] = "Kang",
    ["조"] = "Cho",
    ["윤"] = "Yoon",
    ["장"] = "Jang",
    ["임"] = "Lim"
}

-- Define a function to get the codepoint of a character
local tocodepoint = mw.ustring.codepoint

-- Function to convert a Hangul character to RR
local function hangulToRR(char, name)
    local codepoint = tocodepoint(char)
    if 0xAC00 <= codepoint and codepoint <= 0xD7A3 then
        local li, vi, ti = syllableIndex2JamoIndices(codepoint - 0xAC00)
        return data.rr.leads[li + 1] .. data.rr.vowels[vi + 1] .. data.rr.trails[ti + 1]
    end
    return char
end

-- Function to convert a Hangul character to MR
local function hangulToMR(char, name)
    local codepoint = tocodepoint(char)
    if 0xAC00 <= codepoint and codepoint <= 0xD7A3 then
        local li, vi, ti = syllableIndex2JamoIndices(codepoint - 0xAC00)
        return data.mr.leads[li + 1] .. data.mr.vowels[vi + 1] .. data.mr.trails[ti + 1]
    end
    return char
end

-- Function to handle special cases for names
local function handleNames(text, system)
    local transliteration = {}
    local name_parts = mw.text.split(text, "")
    local is_surname = true

    for _, char in ipairs(name_parts) do
        local transliterated

        if is_surname and surname_exceptions[char] then
            transliterated = surname_exceptions[char]
            is_surname = false
        else
            if system == 'RR' then
                transliterated = hangulToRR(char, true)
            elseif system == 'MR' then
                transliterated = hangulToMR(char, true)
            end
            is_surname = false
        end

        table.insert(transliteration, transliterated)
    end

    return table.concat(transliteration, "-")
end

-- Main function to transliterate text
local function transliterate(text, system, isName)
    if isName then
        return handleNames(text, system)
    else
        local transliteration = {}
        for char in mw.ustring.gmatch(text, ".") do
            if system == 'RR' then
                table.insert(transliteration, hangulToRR(char, false))
            elseif system == 'MR' then
                table.insert(transliteration, hangulToMR(char, false))
            end
        end
        return table.concat(transliteration)
    end
end

-- Expose the transliteration function
function p.transliterate(frame)
    local text = frame.args[1] or ""
    local system = frame.args[2] or "RR"
    local isName = frame.args[3] == "true"
    return transliterate(text, system, isName)
end

return p