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hanziconv 0.3.2

This tool converts between simplified and traditional Chinese Characters.
It consists of two parts:

a command line tool: hanzi-convert
a python library: hanziconv

This module supports both Python 2 and 3

Installation
$ pip install hanziconv

Uninstallation
$ [sudo] pip uninstall hanziconv

Command Line Tool

Synopsis
$ ./hanzi-convert --help
usage: hanzi-convert [-h] [-o OUTFILE] [-s] [-v] infile

Simplified and Traditional Chinese Character Conversion
Version 0.3.2 (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 exit

Example
Conversion from stdin
$ ./hanzi-convert -
Press Crtl-D when finished
Typing away
Now write some chinese characters
繁简转换器
^D
Typing away
Now write some chinese characters
繁簡轉換器
$

Python API
Example
>>> 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
>>> HanziConv.same('繁簡轉換器', '繁简转换器')
True

Testing
The module uses pytest. Use pip to install pytest.
$ [sudo] pip install pytest
Then checkout source code and run test as normal.
$ git clone https://github.com/berniey/hanziconv
$ cd hanziconv
$ python setup.py test
You are encouraged to use virtualenv
and virtualenvwrapper
for to avoid changing your currently operating environment.

License

This module is distributed under Apache License Version 2.0.

The character map used in this module is based on the Multi-function
Chinese Character Database developed by Chinese University of Hong Kong.