JPRINT() [Japanese text write]

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Japanese is output using a custom font.
Also, voiced consonants and semi-voiced consonants（濁点・半濁点） are adjusted to be placed at the top of the characters.

jprint('かわいい いちこ゛た゛いふく さん♥',14) -- Usage is the same as for print().

ぁぃぅぇぉ,ァィゥェォ does not exist as a character in standard Pico-8.
Therefore, we have rewritten the default emoji as shown in the table below.

'ぁ' > '…'
,'ぃ' > '➡️'
,'ぅ' > '★'
,'ぇ' > '⧗'
,'ぉ' > '⬆️',

'ァ' > 'ˇ'
,'ィ' > '∧'
,'ゥ' > '❎'
,'ェ' > '▤'
,'ォ' > '▥',

You can view the Character set from the menu.

Text conversion scripts for SpreadSheet custom scripts

This script converts "かな/カナ" text to JPRINT() specification in a spreadsheet.
Register it in a custom script and execute p8Katamukikana([Cell-ID]) on the cell you want to convert.

function p8Katamukikana(text) {
  const kanamap = {
    'が': 'か゛', 'ぎ': 'き゛','ぐ': 'く゛','げ': 'け゛','ご': 'こ゛',
    'ざ': 'さ゛', 'じ': 'し゛','ず': 'す゛','ぜ': 'せ゛','ぞ': 'そ゛',
    'だ': 'た゛', 'ぢ': 'ち゛','づ': 'つ゛','で': 'て゛','ど': 'と゛',
    'ば': 'は゛', 'び': 'ひ゛','ぶ': 'ふ゛','べ': 'へ゛','ぼ': 'ほ゛',
    'ぱ': 'は゜', 'ぴ': 'ひ゜','ぷ': 'ふ゜','ぺ': 'へ゜','ぽ': 'ほ゜',
    'ガ': 'カ゛', 'ギ': 'キ゛','グ': 'ク゛','ゲ': 'け゛','ゴ': 'コ゛',
    'ザ': 'サ゛', 'ジ': 'シ゛','ズ': 'ス゛','ゼ': 'セ゛','ゾ': 'ソ゛',
    'ダ': 'タ゛', 'ヂ': 'チ゛','ヅ': 'ツ゛','デ': 'テ゛','ド': 'ト゛',
    'バ': 'ハ゛', 'ビ': 'ヒ゛','ブ': 'フ゛','ベ': 'ヘ゛','ボ': 'ホ゛',
    'パ': 'ハ゜', 'ピ': 'ヒ゜','プ': 'フ゜','ペ': 'ヘ゜','ポ': 'ホ゜',
    'ぁ': '…', 'ぃ': '➡️','ぅ': '★','ぇ': '⧗','ぉ': '⬆️',
    'ァ': 'ˇ', 'ィ': '∧','ゥ': '❎','ェ': '▤','ォ': '▥',
    'ゔ': 'う゛', 'ヴ': 'ウ゛','ぅ゙': 'ぅ゛','ゥ゙': 'ゥ゛',
    'ー': '-', '－': '-', '～': '~', 
  }
  var result = ''
  for (var i = 0; i < text.length; i++) {
    result += kanamap[text.charAt(i)] || text.charAt(i);
  }
  return result;
}