Khmer Spelling

Khmer Spelling or Unicode Character Reordering which corrects the ordering of Khmer unicode character by following the rule / specification in the khmer character specification.

Features

1. khnormal: Fixes Khmer Unicode Character ordering or incorrect spelling. This work is cloned from specification's python script.
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Installation

pip install khmerspell

Usage

To correct the spelling khmer text.

from khmerspell import khnormal

text = "ខ្ញំុជាស្រ្តីខ្មែរ" # wrong encoding ordering

encoded_text = khnormal(text)

print(encoded_text) # correct encoding ordering, according to the specification

Further more, you can print out each unicode character to see what has been changed, as following:

def get_hex_code_points(sentence):
    """
    Get the Unicode code points of each character in the token.
    """
    return [f"U+{ord(char):04X}" for char in sentence]

text = "ខ្ញំុជាស្រ្តីខ្មែរ"
# Print the text
print(text)

# Print unicode code of each character
print(get_hex_code_points(text))

# Encode the text
encoded_text = khnormal(text)

# Print the encoded text
print(encoded_text)

# Print the unicode code of each encoded character
print(get_hex_code_points(encoded_text))

Contribution

You are welcomed to contribute to this project so long as you abide by the license below. You can either create issues for us to fix or a PR for us to review.

License

Khmer Character Specification/Usages by SIL is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.