devtrans 3.0

Convert among Devanagari transliteration systems

Devanagari Transliterators

Convert among common Devanagari transliteration systems. The following codecs are currently implemented.

System	Code	Decoder	Encoder
Devanagari	dev	✓	✓
Hardvard Kyoto	hk	✓	✓
IAST	iast	✓	✓
ITRANS	itrans	✓	✓
SLP1	slp	✓	✓
(La)TeX	tex	✗	✓
Velthuis	vel	✓	✓
WX	wx	✓	✓

Installation

The best method to install is via pip.

pip3 install devtrans

Clone the GitLab repository to install from the source.

Usage

As a script

transliterate -d dev -e iast -i input_file -o outputfile

The options

• -d Decoder system code (defaults todev)
• -e Encoder system code (defaults to iast)
• -i Input file (defaults to STDIN)
• -o Output file (defaults to STDOUT)

See help for more details

transliterate --help

As a module

Import the module.

import devtrans

Call any codec function with appropriate input text

target = devtrans.wx2iast('xevanAgarI')

Devanagari encoders can have an optional boolean argument. If True, which is default, the encoder transliterates digits to Devanagari digits. If False, it leaves digits as it is.

target = devtrans.wx2dev('BagavaxgIwA 18.78', False)

Disclaimer

It has primarily been developed for personal use as a tea-time activity. Some of my colleagues and I are using it since 2015 for general texts from classical literature. I have been tweaking and making modifications whenever we found an issue. However, the transliterators are not tested exhaustively or thoroughly with various kinds of texts.

Majority of the transliteration schemes are case-sensitive. Currently, encoder/decoder for case-insensitve schemes works with lowercase characers only.

Many schemes use punctuation characters to represent letters which are represented using alphabets in another scheme. This makes punctuated text to be poorly transliterated. No character-escape mechanism is used.

Contribute

Find the repo on GitLab. If found bugs, please fix and push them, raise an issue or mail me.