Hanzi Converter for Traditional and Simplified Chinese
Project description
This tool converts between simplified and traditional Chinese Characters. It consists of two parts:
a command line tool: hanzi-convert
a python library: hanziconv
This module supports both Python 2 and 3
Installation
$ pip install hanziconv
Uninstallation
$ [sudo] pip uninstall hanziconv
Command Line Tool
Synopsis
$ ./hanzi-convert --help
usage: hanzi-convert [-h] [-o OUTFILE] [-s] [-v] infile
Simplified and Traditional Chinese Character Conversion
Version 0.3.2 (By Bernard Yue)
Converting to Traditional Hanzi by default with no -s flag
positional arguments:
infile filename | "-", corresponds to stdin
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-o OUTFILE, --output OUTFILE
filename to save output, stdout if omitted
-s, --simplified convert to simplified characters
-v, --version show program's version number and exit
Example
Conversion from stdin
$ ./hanzi-convert -
Press Crtl-D when finished
Typing away
Now write some chinese characters
繁简转换器
^D
Typing away
Now write some chinese characters
繁簡轉換器
$
Python API
Example
>>> from hanziconv import HanziConv
>>> print(HanziConv.toSimplified('繁簡轉換器'))
繁简转换器
>>> print(HanziConv.toTraditional('繁简转换器'))
繁簡轉換器
>>> HanziConv.same('繁簡轉換器', '繁简转换器')
True
Testing
The module uses pytest. Use pip to install pytest.
$ [sudo] pip install pytest
Then checkout source code and run test as normal.
$ git clone https://github.com/berniey/hanziconv
$ cd hanziconv
$ python setup.py test
You are encouraged to use virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper for to avoid changing your currently operating environment.
License
The character map used in this module is based on the Multi-function Chinese Character Database developed by Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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