translit 0.2

Transliterate between Unicode and smaller coded character sets

Example usage

>>> import translit
>>> text = "La question, c’est\u202f: «\u202fOù est le cœur\u202f?\u202f»"

Downgrade text to Latin-1:

>>> translit.downgrade(text, "latin-1")
"La question, c'est\xa0: «\xa0Où est le coeur\xa0?\xa0»"

Downgrade text to ASCII:

>>> translit.downgrade(text, "ascii")
'La question, c\'est : "Ou est le coeur ?"'

Downgrade and encode to Latin-1:

>>> buf = text.encode("latin-1/translit")
>>> buf
b"La question, c'est\xa0: \xab\xa0O\xf9 est le coeur\xa0?\xa0\xbb"

Decoding, the normal way:

>>> buf.decode("latin-1")
"La question, c'est\xa0: «\xa0Où est le coeur\xa0?\xa0»"

Decoding, the upgraded way:

>>> buf.decode("latin-1/translit/fr")
'La question, c’est\u202f: «\u202fOù est le cœur\u202f?\u202f»'

Installation

To install the package for Python 3, use:

$ ./setup.py install

To install the package for Python 2, use:

$ python2 setup.py install

On Windows, you may use one of the MSI binary packages provided on the download page.

Requirements

• Python 3.2+ (or 2.7)

• PyEnchant

• lib3to2 (if installing for Python 2)