A Ruby Gem for translation between Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. The Gem includes a mapping dictionary so it doesn't get the translation from a web service. It can translate Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese or a mixed string into either Traditional Chinese or Simplified Chinese. Also, you can let the Gem determine whether the supplied string is in Traditional Chinese or not.
gem install tradsim
Currently tradsim only work in UTF-8 encoding, put # encoding: UTF-8 OR #!/usr/bin/env ruby -wKU at the beginning of the ruby code.
To use tradsim,
require 'tradsim'
To translate Traditional Chinese text to Simplified Chinese,
Tradsim::to_sim("轉街過巷 就如滑過浪潮 聽天說地 仍然剩我心跳")
You will get
"转街过巷 就如滑过浪潮 听天说地 仍然剩我心跳"
Similarly, to translate Simplified Chinese text to Traditional Chinese,
Tradsim::to_trad("转街过巷 就如滑过浪潮 听天说地 仍然剩我心跳")
You will get
"轉街過巷 就如滑過浪潮 聽天說地 仍然剩我心跳"
Both to_sim and to_trad works as expected even if the text supplied contain both Traditional and Simplified Chinese Characters. Therefore,
Tradsim::to_sim("轉街過巷 就如滑過浪潮 听天说地 仍然剩我心跳")
will yield
"转街过巷 就如滑过浪潮 听天说地 仍然剩我心跳"
If you are sure about the current text is Traditional Chinese or not, but just want to toggle between them,
Tradsim::toggle("轉街過巷 就如滑過浪潮 聽天說地 仍然剩我心跳")
will yield
"转街过巷 就如滑过浪潮 听天说地 仍然剩我心跳"
And Tradsim::toggle will translate the string back to Traditional Chinese if you supply a Simplified one.
Finally, the method Tradsim::guess will give you a rough guess on whether the text is Traditional Chinese or not. Possible value from Tradsim::guess are :traditional , :simplified , and :unknown. For example,
Tradsim::guess("轉街過巷 就如滑過浪潮 聽天說地 仍然剩我心跳")
will yield
:traditional
Copyright (C) 2012 Tom Lam. MIT License. See LICENSE file for details.