translitcodec Unicode to 8-bit charset transliteration codec
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Python ASCII transliteration transliterating text coded character ISO 8859

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Unicode to 8-bit charset transliteration codec translitcodec is a Python library that contains codecs for transliterating ISO 10646 texts into best-effort representations using smaller coded character sets (ASCII, ISO 8859, etc.). The translation tables used by the codecs are from the ``transtab`` collection by Markus Kuhn. Three types of transliterating codecs are provided:"long", using as many characters as needed to make a natural replacement. For example, u00e4 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS ``ä`` will be replaced with ``ae``."short", using the minimum number of characters to make a replacement. For example, u00e4 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS ``ä`` will be replaced with ``a``."one", only performing single character replacements. Characters that can not be transliterated with a single character are passed through unchanged. For example, u2639 WHITE FROWNING FACE ``?`` will be passed through unchanged.Using the codecs is simple:>>> import translitcodec>>> u'fácil € ?'.encode('translit/long')u'facil EUR :-)'>>> u'fácil € ?'.encode('translit/short')u'facil E :-)'The codecs return Unicode by default. To receive a bytestring back, either chain the output of encode() to another codec, or append the name of the desired byte encoding to the codec name:>>> u'fácil € ?'.encode('translit/one').encode('ascii', 'replace')'facil E ?'>>> u'fácil € ?'.encode('translit/one/ascii', 'replace')'facil E ?'The package also supplies a 'transliterate' codec, an alias for 'translit/long'. Requirements: · Python

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