It often happens that you have non-Roman text data in Unicode, but you can’t display it – usually because you’re trying to show it to a user via an application that doesn’t support Unicode, or because the fonts you need aren’t accessible. You could represent the Unicode characters as “???????” or ” BA A0q0…”, but that’s nearly useless to the user who actually wants to read what the text says.
What Unidecode provides is a function, ‘unidecode(…)’ that takes Unicode data and tries to represent it in ASCII characters (i.e., the universally displayable characters between 0x00 and 0x7F). The representation is almost always an attempt at transliteration – i.e., conveying, in Roman letters, the pronunciation expressed by the text in some other writing system.
For example ‘unidecode(u”u5317u4EB0”)’ returns ‘Bei Jing’.
This is a Python port of Text::Unidecode Perl module by Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>.
Download files
Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.
Source Distribution
File details
Details for the file Unidecode-0.04.7.tar.gz.
File metadata
- Download URL: Unidecode-0.04.7.tar.gz
- Upload date:
- Size: 187.5 kB
- Tags: Source
- Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
File hashes
| Algorithm | Hash digest | |
|---|---|---|
| SHA256 |
f75cd9c7a8dee02be23dcc6c516236e55ae7a60184fdb1e925d65d544c200c4c
|
|
| MD5 |
c67bc90041ffc45a1d0f5cba5feb0e14
|
|
| BLAKE2b-256 |
f0dd86c6d331c0ac004db772c75212de93e5ec74ca38ceac24fed80ff807ec5b
|
