hanziconv 0.3

Hanzi Converter for Traditional and Simplified Chinese

This tool converts between simplified and traditional Chinese Characters. It consists of two parts:

• a command line tool: hanzi-convert

• a python library: hanziconv

Installation

$ pip install hanziconv

Command Line Tool

The tool requires Python 2.6+

Synopsis

$ ./hanzi-convert --help
usage: hanzi-convert [-h] [-o OUTFILE] [-s] [-v] infile

Simplified and Traditional Chinese Character Conversion
Version 0.2.3 (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

This module requires Python 2.6+. See https://pythonhosted.org/hanziconv/ for full documentation.

String Conversion

>>> 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
>>> print(HanziConv.toSimplified(u'繁簡轉換器'))
繁简转换器
>>> print(HanziConv.toTraditional(u'繁简转换器'))
繁簡轉換器
>>> print(HanziConv.toSimplified(u'mix English and Chinese. 繁簡轉換器')
mix English and Chinese. 繁简转换器
>>> print(HanziConv.toTraditional(u'mix English and Chinese. 繁简转换器'))
mix English and Chinese. 繁簡轉換器
>>> print(HanziConv.toSimplified('mix English and Chinese. 繁簡轉換器'))
mix English and Chinese. 繁简转换器
>>> print(HanziConv.toTraditional('mix English and Chinese. 繁简转换器'))
mix English and Chinese. 繁簡轉換器

Comparing String

>>> from hanziconv import HanziConv
>>> u'繁簡轉換器' ==  u'繁简转换器'
False
>>> HanziConv.same(u'繁簡轉換器', u'繁简转换器')
True
>>> str1 = 'mix English and Chinese. 繁簡轉換器'
>>> str2 = 'mix English and Chinese. 繁简转换器'
>>> str3 = 'mix Chinese and English. 繁简转换器'
>>> str4 = u'mix English and Chinese. 繁簡轉換器'
>>> HanziConv.same(str1, str2)
True
>>> HanziConv.same(str2, str3)
False
>>> HanziConv.same(str1, str4)
True

Testing

You can either run the standalone runtests.py or standard python setup.py test

$ tar zxf hanziconv-0.2.3.tar.gz
$ cd hanziconv-0.2.3
$ python setup.py test

License

This module is distributed under Apache License Version 2.0.