Decorate Pinyin text with its proper diacritics.
Project description
pinyin-dec (“Pinyin Decorate”) is a small command-line utility program for converting numbered Pinyin text to its proper form with diacritics. The basic form is the following:
Usage: pinyin-dec [options] [string ...] Decorate Pinyin text with its proper diacritics. Options: -h, --help print this help message and exit -v, --verbose include information useful for debugging
A simple way to use it is like this:
$ pinyin-dec han4 yu3 pin1 yin1 hàn yǔ pīn yīn
Another example:
$ pinyin-dec chai2 mi3 you2 yan2 jiang4 cu4 cha2 chái mǐ yóu yán jiàng cù chá
It can also handle capitalized and conjoined Pinyin automatically:
$ pinyin-dec Han4yu3 Pin1yin1 Hànyǔ Pīnyīn
It knows about the “v” and “u:” conventions, and converts them accordingly:
$ pinyin-dec NV3 nv3 NU:3 nu:3 LV4 lv4 LU:4 lu:4 NǙ nǚ NǙ nǚ LǛ lǜ LǛ lǜ
It ignores English words and other things that don’t look like Pinyin:
$ pinyin-dec "She is a nv3han4zi." She is a nǚhànzi.
It leaves punctuation alone too, as you can see:
$ pinyin-dec 'Confucius is "Kong3fu1zi3." Mencius is "Meng4zi3."' Confucius is "Kǒngfūzǐ." Mencius is "Mèngzǐ."
If no arguments are given, it just reads text from the standard input:
$ echo 'Sha1 ji1 xia4 hou2.' | pinyin-dec Shā jī xià hóu.
It also allows you to enter text and get the results one line at a time:
$ pinyin-dec chi1 bu4 dao4 pu2 tao5 shuo1 pu2 tao5 suan1 chī bù dào pú tao shuō pú tao suān
pinyin-dec is written as a traditional Unix-style command-line utility. Additionally, the main program module can be fully imported into Python so its internals are accessible to other programs.
pinyin-dec is written in Python 3 and available under the MIT License.
Installation
To install these programs the “Python way,” you can use setup.py:
# python3 setup.py install
If you have pip installed, that is the best way.
Documentation
pinyin-dec includes a Unix manual page (“manpage”), which is installed with the software. You can type “man pinyin-dec” to review the functions provided by the software, how to use it, and other program information.
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