Pig Latin is an interesting variant of English. (Google has a Pig Latin version!)
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The following is the PHP code used for the translation.
With regular expression the panacea, we can make the program seem VERY simple.
<?php
/* This program is free software. It comes without any warranty, to
* the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute it
* and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want
* To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See
* http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING for more details. */
/* IMPORTANT: The encoding of this PHP source must be UTF-8.
*
* Perl-Compatible Regular Expression library has perfect support for Unicode;
* but PHP string functions do not as of 5.2.8. So we have to do them ourselves.
*/
$GLOBALS['special_consonants'] = 'çðñþ';
$GLOBALS['special_vowels'] = 'àáâãäåæèéêëìíîïòóôõöøùúûüýÿ';
$GLOBALS['utf8_upper_array'] = array (
'ç'=>'Ç', 'ð'=>'Ð', 'ñ'=>'Ñ', 'þ'=>'Þ', 'à'=>'À', 'á'=>'Á', 'â'=>'Â', 'ã'=>'Ã',
'ä'=>'Ä', 'å'=>'Å', 'æ'=>'Æ', 'è'=>'È', 'é'=>'É', 'ê'=>'Ê', 'ë'=>'Ë', 'ì'=>'Ì',
'í'=>'Í', 'î'=>'Î', 'ï'=>'Ï', 'ò'=>'Ò', 'ó'=>'Ó', 'ô'=>'Ô', 'õ'=>'Õ', 'ö'=>'Ö',
'ø'=>'Ø', 'ù'=>'Ù', 'ú'=>'Ú', 'û'=>'Û', 'ü'=>'Ü', 'ý'=>'Ý', 'ÿ'=>'Ÿ',
'a'=>'A', 'b'=>'B', 'c'=>'C', 'd'=>'D', 'e'=>'E', 'f'=>'F', 'g'=>'G', 'h'=>'H',
'i'=>'I', 'j'=>'J', 'k'=>'K', 'l'=>'L', 'm'=>'M', 'n'=>'N', 'o'=>'O', 'p'=>'P',
'q'=>'Q', 'r'=>'R', 's'=>'S', 't'=>'T', 'u'=>'U', 'v'=>'V', 'w'=>'W', 'x'=>'X',
'y'=>'Y', 'z'=>'Z',
);
$GLOBALS['utf8_lower_array'] = array (
'Ç'=>'ç', 'Ð'=>'ð', 'Ñ'=>'ñ', 'Þ'=>'þ', 'À'=>'à', 'Á'=>'á', 'Â'=>'â', 'Ã'=>'ã',
'Ä'=>'ä', 'Å'=>'å', 'Æ'=>'æ', 'È'=>'è', 'É'=>'é', 'Ê'=>'ê', 'Ë'=>'ë', 'Ì'=>'ì',
'Í'=>'í', 'Î'=>'î', 'Ï'=>'ï', 'Ò'=>'ò', 'Ó'=>'ó', 'Ô'=>'ô', 'Õ'=>'õ', 'Ö'=>'ö',
'Ø'=>'ø', 'Ù'=>'ù', 'Ú'=>'ú', 'Û'=>'û', 'Ü'=>'ü', 'Ý'=>'ý', 'Ÿ'=>'ÿ',
'A'=>'a', 'B'=>'b', 'C'=>'c', 'D'=>'d', 'E'=>'e', 'F'=>'f', 'G'=>'g', 'H'=>'h',
'I'=>'i', 'J'=>'j', 'K'=>'k', 'L'=>'l', 'M'=>'m', 'N'=>'n', 'O'=>'o', 'P'=>'p',
'Q'=>'q', 'R'=>'r', 'S'=>'s', 'T'=>'t', 'U'=>'u', 'V'=>'v', 'W'=>'w', 'X'=>'x',
'Y'=>'y', 'Z'=>'z',
);
/* UTF-8 is "self-segregating". So using strtr is safe. */
function utf8_toupper($s) { return strtr($s,$GLOBALS['utf8_upper_array']); }
function utf8_tolower($s) { return strtr($s,$GLOBALS['utf8_lower_array']); }
function utf8_ucfirst($s) {
return preg_replace_callback('/^./u', create_function('$m','return utf8_toupper($m[0]);'), $s);
}
function English2PigLatin($s) {
/* Consonant-only words are also caught by the regexp, for efficiency purpose.
* (Otherwise they are attempted many times, starting from each letter)
* This function handles all letters present in ISO8859-1 correctly.
*/
global $special_vowels, $special_consonants;
$vowels = "aeiou$special_vowels";
$consonants = "bcdfghj-np-tvwxz$special_consonants";
$letters = "a-z$special_vowels$special_consonants";
return preg_replace_callback(
"/([$vowels]|(qu|[y$consonants](['’]?[$consonants])*))((['’]?[$letters])*)/iu",
'English2PigLatin_Callback', $s);
}
function English2PigLatin_Callback($m) {
/* $m[0] = Whole word
* $m[2] = Leading consonants, if any
* $m[4] = Trailing letters (following first vowel or leading consonants)
*/
if ($m[2]) {
if (!$m[4])
return $m[0];
$r = "{$m[4]}{$m[2]}ay";
} else
$r = "{$m[0]}way";
if (@ctype_upper($m[0][1]))
$r = utf8_toupper($r);
elseif (ctype_upper($m[0][0]))
$r = utf8_ucfirst(utf8_tolower($r));
return $r;
}
?>
William H. Donnelly has another implementation in JavaScript.
