anyascii 0.1.1

Unicode to ASCII transliteration

Any Ascii

Unicode to ASCII transliteration

Table of Contents

• Examples
• Implementations
  • Java
  • Python
  • Node.js
• Glossary
• See Also

Examples

Script	Input	Output	Actual
	résumé	resume
	© ㎧ Æ №	(C) m/s AE No
Mandarin Chinese	深圳	ShenZhen	Shenzhen
Cantonese Chinese	深水埗	ShenShuiBu	Sham Shui Po
Russian Cyrillic	Борис Николаевич Ельцин	Boris Nikolaevich El'tsin	Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
Korean Hangul	반기문	bangimun	Ban Ki-Moon
Japanese Hiragana	さいたま	saitama	Saitama
Japanese Kanji	埼玉県	QiYuXian	Saitama-ken
Ancient Greek	Φειδιππίδης	Feidippidis	Pheidippides
Modern Greek	Δημήτρης Φωτόπουλος	Dimitris Fotopoylos	Dimitris Fotopoulos

Implementations

Java

String s = AnyAscii.transliterate("άνθρωποι");
// anthropoi

Java 6+ compatible

Available through JitPack

Maven

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>jitpack.io</id>
        <url>https://jitpack.io</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.hunterwb</groupId>
    <artifactId>any-ascii</artifactId>
    <version>0.1.0</version>
</dependency>

Gradle

repositories {
    maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
}

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.hunterwb:any-ascii:0.1.0'
}

Python

from anyascii import anyascii

s = anyascii('άνθρωποι')
#  anthropoi

Python 3.3+ compatible

Install latest release: pip install anyascii

Install from master: pip install https://github.com/hunterwb/any-ascii/archive/master.zip#subdirectory=python

Node.js

const anyAscii = require('any-ascii');

const s = anyAscii('άνθρωποι');
// anthropoi

Node.js 4+ compatible

Install latest release: npm install any-ascii

Install from master: npm install hunterwb/any-ascii

Glossary

• Unicode: The universal character set, a global standard to support all the world's languages. Consists of 100,000+ characters used by 150 writing systems. Typically encoded into bytes using UTF-8.
• ASCII: The most compatible character set. A subset of Unicode/UTF-8 consisting of 128 characters using 7-bits in the range 0x00 - 0x7F. The printable characters are English letters, digits, and punctuation in the range 0x20 - 0x7E, with the remaining being control characters.
• Transliteration: A mapping from one writing system into another, typically done one character at a time using predictable rules. Transliteration generally preserves the spelling of words, while translation preserves the meaning, and transcription preserves the sound. Transliteration into the Latin script used by English is known as romanization.

See Also

ALA-LC Romanization
BGN/PCGN Romanization
Compart: Unicode Charts
ICAO 9303: Machine Readable Passports
ISO 9: Cyrillic Romanization
Sean M. Burke: Unidecode
Sean M. Burke: Unidecode, Perl Journal
UNGEGN Romanization
Unicode CLDR: Transliteration Guidelines
Unicode Unihan Database
Wikipedia: Romanization of Greek