ASCII transliterations of Unicode text that recognize CJKV complex charactors
You can run it on python interpreter(in 2.x):
from unihandecode import Unihandecoder
d = Unihandecoder(lang='zh')
print d.decode(u"\u660e\u5929\u660e\u5929\u7684\u98ce\u5439")
# That prints: Ming Tian Ming Tian De Feng Chui
u = Unihandecoder(lang='ja')
print d.decode(
u'\u660e\u65e5\u306f\u660e\u65e5\u306e\u98a8\u304c\u5439\u304f')
# That prints: Ashita ha Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
There are some other examples in tests/basic_2.py.
You can also learn from actual applications which use unihandecode, such as
It often happens that you have non-Roman text data in Unicode, but you can't display it -- usually because you're trying to show it to a user via an application that doesn't support Unicode, or because the fonts you need aren't accessible. You could represent the Unicode characters as "???????" or "\15BA\15A0\1610...", but that's nearly useless to the user who actually wants to read what the text says.
What Unihandecode provides is a function, 'decode(...)' that takes Unicode data and tries to represent it in ASCII characters (i.e., the universally displayable characters between 0x00 and 0x7F). The representation is almost always an attempt at transliteration -- i.e., conveying, in Roman letters, the pronunciation expressed by the text in some other writing system. (See the example above)
These are same meaning in both language in example above. "明天明天的风吹" for Chinese and "明日は明日の風が吹く" for Japanese. The character "明" is converted "Ming" in Chinese. "明日" is converted "Ashita" but single charactor "明" will be converted "Mei" in Japanese.
This is an improved version of Python unidecode, that is Python port of Text::Unidecode Perl module by Sean M. Burke sburke@cpan.org.
It use a setuptools library to build and test.
You install Unihandecode by running these commands:
make clean
make
make install
If you got egg package, it is easy to install by
$ easy_install Unihandecode-0.44-py2.7.egg
To build egg package;
make dist
To do unit test, run
make test
This library uses pickler that format is depend on platform
and python version.
You should re-create dictionary for each python version.
To avoid a dependency problem, always recommend to run make clean
before build.
Questions, bug reports, useful code bits, and suggestions for Unihandecode are handled on github.com/miurahr/unihandecode
The latest version of Unihandecode is available from Git repository in github.com:
https://github.com/miurahr/unihandecode
and Eggs are on PyPi.python.org:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Unihandecode
WARNING: There was launchpad.net Bazzar repository named unhandecode. It has NOT been maintained and moved github entirely.
Unicode Character Database: Date: 2010-09-23 09:29:58 UDT [JHJ] Unicode version: 6.0.0
Copyright (c) 1991-2010 Unicode, Inc. For terms of use, see http://www.unicode.org/terms_of_use.html For documentation, see http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr44/
Unidecode's character transliteration tables:
Copyright 2001, Sean M. Burke sburke@cpan.org, all rights reserved.
Python code:
Copyright 2010-2014, Hiroshi Miura miurahr@linux.com Copyright 2009, Tomaz Solc tomaz@zemanta.com
Unihandecode Copyright 2010-2015 Hiroshi Miura
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.