snipsnipsnip/python-nkf

Python Japanese codecs by NKF

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Python Interface to NKF

Copyright (c) 2012-2014 SATOH Fumiyasu @ OSS Technology Copr., Japan
Copyright (c) 2005 Matsumoto, Tadashi (original author)
License: BSD
Development home: https://github.com/fumiyas/python-nkf
Author's home: https://fumiyas.github.io/

How to Install

Install from PyPI:

$ sudo pip install nkf

Install from source tree:

$ make
$ sudo make install

Usage

## flag is same as the flags of nkf itself
import nkf
output = nkf.nkf(flag, input)

## For example, to convert from euc-jp to utf-8
output = nkf.nkf('-Ew', 'some euc-jp string')

## Guess character encoding
input_encoding = nkf.guess('some string')

guess() function guesses an input string encoding and returns one of next strings:

BINARY
ASCII
Shift_JIS
CP932
EUC-JP
EUCJP-MS
CP51932
ISO-2022-JP
CP50221
CP50220
UTF-8
UTF-16
UTF-32