translitera 0.2.0.dev0

Phonetic transliteration of text in Kannaḍa script into Latin/English characters

^ translitera

^^^ phonetically transliterate text from Kannaḍa script to English/Latin characters

^^^ Prerequisites

1. Python 3 - https://www.python.org/ (tested with Python 3.5 & 3.6)

^^^ Build and install translitera

Change to the directory consisting of setup.py and run

$ sudo python3 setup.py install

^^^ How to use translitera

Translitera can be used in the following 4 forms.

1. To transliterate a unicode text file in Kannaḍa script into English/Latin

   $ cat kannada_file.txt | translitera > transliterated_file.txt

2. To transliterate console input in Kannaḍa script into English/Latin ` $ translitera -t ಕದಂಬ kadamba $ translitera -t ಕನ್ನಡ kannaḍa `

3. To transliterate a filename in Kannaḍa script into English/Latin

   $ translitera -r <filename>

4. To batch transliterate the directory contents in Kannaḍa script into English/Latin

   $ translitera -b <directory_name>