Hanzi Converter for Traditional and Simplified Chinese
Project description
This tool converts between simplified and traditional Chinese Characters. It consists of two parts:
a command line tool: hanzi-convert
a python library: hanziconv
Installation
$ pip install hanziconvCommand Line Tool
The tool requires Python 2.7+ (should work for Python 2.6, 3.0 and 3.1 but was not tested)
Synopsis
$ ./hanzi-convert --help
usage: hanzi-convert [-h] [-o OUTFILE] [-s] [-v] infile
Simplified and Traditional Chinese Character Conversion
Version 0.2.2 (By Bernard Yue)
Converting to Traditional Hanzi by default with no -s flag
positional arguments:
infile filename | "-", corresponds to stdin
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-o OUTFILE, --output OUTFILE
filename to save output, stdout if omitted
-s, --simplified convert to simplified characters
-v, --version show program's version number and exitExample
Conversion from stdin
$ ./hanzi-convert.py -
Press Crtl-D when finished
Typing away
Now write some chinese characters
繁简转换器
Typing away
Now write some chinese characters
繁簡轉換器
$Python API
This module requires Python 2.7+ (should work for Python 2.6 but was not tested). See https://pythonhosted.org/hanziconv/ for full documentation.
String Conversion
>>> from hanziconv import HanziConv
>>> print(HanziConv.toSimplified('繁簡轉換器'))
繁简转换器
>>> print(HanziConv.toTraditional('繁简转换器'))
繁簡轉換器
>>> print(HanziConv.toSimplified(u'繁簡轉換器'))
繁简转换器
>>> print(HanziConv.toTraditional(u'繁简转换器'))
繁簡轉換器
>>> print(HanziConv.toSimplified(u'mix English and Chinese. 繁簡轉換器')
mix English and Chinese. 繁简转换器
>>> print(HanziConv.toTraditional(u'mix English and Chinese. 繁简转换器'))
mix English and Chinese. 繁簡轉換器
>>> print(HanziConv.toSimplified('mix English and Chinese. 繁簡轉換器'))
mix English and Chinese. 繁简转换器
>>> print(HanziConv.toTraditional('mix English and Chinese. 繁简转换器'))
mix English and Chinese. 繁簡轉換器Comparing String
>>> from hanziconv import HanziConv
>>> u'繁簡轉換器' == u'繁简转换器'
False
>>> HanziConv.same(u'繁簡轉換器', u'繁简转换器')
True
>>> str1 = 'mix English and Chinese. 繁簡轉換器'
>>> str2 = 'mix English and Chinese. 繁简转换器'
>>> str3 = 'mix Chinese and English. 繁简转换器'
>>> str4 = u'mix English and Chinese. 繁簡轉換器'
>>> HanziConv.same(str1, str2)
True
>>> HanziConv.same(str2, str3)
False
>>> HanziConv.same(str1, str4)
TrueTesting
You can either run the standalone runtests.py or standard python setup.py test
$ tar zxf hanziconv-0.2.2.tar.gz
$ cd hanziconv-0.2.2
$ python setup.py testLicense
This module is distributed under Apache License Version 2.0.
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