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UNICODE2ASCII(3)

NAME

unicode2ascii - Unicode to Ascii Python library

SYNOPSIS

import unicode2ascii

Boolean unicode2ascii.is_unicode_category(String character, String category)

Boolean unicode2ascii.is_unicode_letter(String character)

Boolean unicode2ascii.is_unicode_mark(String character)

Boolean unicode2ascii.is_unicode_number(String character)

Boolean unicode2ascii.is_unicode_punctuation(String character)

Boolean unicode2ascii.is_unicode_symbol(String character)

Boolean unicode2ascii.is_unicode_separator(String character)

Boolean unicode2ascii.is_unicode_other(String character)

String unicode2ascii.unicode_category(String category)

String unicode2ascii.unicode_to_ascii_character(String character, [String default = ''])

String unicode2ascii.unicode_to_ascii_string(String string, [String default = ''])

unicode2ascii.analyze_unicode_character(String character)

DESCRIPTION

The is_unicode_category() function returns True if character belongs to the category Unicode category or False if not.

All the other is_unicode_XXX() functions return True if character belongs to the XXX category.

The unicode_category() function return a one-line description of the specified category.

The unicode_to_ascii_character() function returns the ASCII equivalent of an unicode character, or an unchanged non-Unicode character. If there is no ASCII equivalent, it returns the default string ("" if not provided).

The unicode_to_ascii_string() does the same for all the characters in the string.

The analyze_unicode_character() function returns all available information about the Unicode character.

ENVIRONMENT

The UNICODE2ASCII_DEBUG environment variable can be set to any value to enable debug mode.

SEE ALSO

unicode2ascii(1), iconv(3)

STANDARDS

The unicode2ascii library tries to follow the PEP 8 style guide for Python code.

HISTORY

This library was made for The PNU project.

LICENSE

This library is available under the 3-clause BSD license.

AUTHORS

Hubert Tournier

CAVEATS

So far, only the following Unicode character sets are processed for missing ASCII equivalents:

  • C0 control characters
  • C1 control characters
  • Basic Latin characters
  • Latin-1 Supplement
  • Latin Extended-A
  • Latin Extended-B
  • Latin Extended Additional
  • IPA Extensions
  • Spacing Modifier Letters
  • Unicode symbols
  • General Punctuation
  • Number Forms
  • Cyrillic