#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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"""This module represents Japanese language.

For more information, see U{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language}
"""

from translate.lang import common
import re

class ja(common.Common):
    """This class represents Japanese."""
    code = "ja"
    fullname = "Japanese"
    nplurals = 1
    pluralequation = "0"

    sentenceend = u"。！？!?"

    # Compared to common.py, we make the space after the sentence ending 
    # optional and don't demand an uppercase letter to follow.
    sentencere = re.compile(r""".*? #any text, but match non-greedy
                            [%s]    #the puntuation for sentence ending
                            \s*    #the optional space after the puntuation
                            """ % sentenceend, re.VERBOSE)

    puncdict = {
        u".": u"。",
        u",": u"、",
    }

    ignoretests = ["startcaps", "simplecaps"]