name-variants

Multilingual name romanization lookup tables for Rust — Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese, Indian, Persian, Hebrew, Thai, Greek, Turkish, Russian, Indonesian/Malay.

Maps romanization variants to their canonical native-script key so that Chen, Chan, and Tan all resolve to 陈.

Usage

use name_variants::lookup_key;

assert_eq!(lookup_key("Chan"),      Some("陈"));
assert_eq!(lookup_key("chen"),      Some("陈"));   // case-insensitive
assert_eq!(lookup_key("park"),      Some("박"));
assert_eq!(lookup_key("Muhammad"),  Some("محمد"));
assert_eq!(lookup_key("Smith"),     None);

// Multi-word: first matching token wins
assert_eq!(lookup_key("Chan Wai Ming"), Some("陈"));

Install

[dependencies]
name-variants = "0.1"

Design

• Canonical key is always the native script form — 陈, 박, محمد
• Zero runtime dependencies — all data in a compile-time perfect hash map (phf)
• Case-insensitive — input is lowercased before lookup
• None for unknowns — explicit signal to fall back to fuzzy matching