Metadata-Version: 1.1 Name: Unidecode Version: 0.4.1 Summary: US-ASCII transliterations of Unicode text Home-page: http://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2009/01/unicode_transliteration_in_python/ Author: Tomaz Solc Author-email: tomaz.solc@tablix.org License: UNKNOWN Description: Unidecode ========= ASCII transliterations of Unicode text Example Use ----------- :: from unidecode import unidecode print unidecode(u"北亰") # That prints: Bei Jing Description ----------- 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. (See the example above) This is a Python port of Text::Unidecode Perl module by Sean M. Burke . Platform: UNKNOWN Provides: unidecode