ctranslitcodec 0.2.1

Fast C Unicode to 8-bit charset transliteration codec

This package contains codecs for transliterating ISO 10646 texts into best-effort representations using smaller coded character sets (ASCII, ISO 8859, etc.). It is a C reimplementation of the [translitcodec][1] module by Jason Kirtland, as well as a drop-in replacement.

The translation tables used by the codecs are from the [transtab][2] collection by [Prof. Markus Kuhn][3], with some extensions by [Fazal Majid][4].

Three types of transliterating codecs are provided:

“long”, using as many characters as needed to make a natural

replacement. For example, u00e4 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS ä will be replaced with ae.

“short”, using the minimum number of characters to make a replacement. For example, u00e4 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS ä will be replaced with a.

“one”, only performing single character replacements. Characters that can not be transliterated with a single character are passed through unchanged. For example, u2639 WHITE FROWNING FACE ☹ will be passed through unchanged.

Using the codecs is simple:

>>> import ctranslitcodec
>>> import codecs
>>> codecs.encode(u'fácil € ☺', 'ctranslit/long')
u'facil EUR :-)'
>>> codecs.encode(u'fácil € ☺', 'ctranslit/short')
u'facil E :-)'

[1]: https://pypi.org/project/translitcodec/ [2]: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#libs [3]: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ [4]: https://majid.info/