Python port of Unidecode

About

Some time ago Sean M. Burke wrote Text::Unidecode, a wonderful Perl module that performs Unicode transliteration. However, since I mostly write Python code at work, I kept missing an equivalent library in Python.

This is my port of Sean's module to Python. I took the most convenient path and did pretty much literal translation, with most of the work done by a simple script that converted character tables from Perl to Python syntax.

The use is pretty straight forward and it works even on more complicated cases:

from unidecode import unidecode
print unidecode(u"\u5317\u4EB0")

# That prints: Bei Jing

Download

See the following URL for a list of releases:

Alternatively, you can also get the complete git repository:

$ git clone http://code.zemanta.com/tsolc/git/unidecode

See also

• Much of the original documentation still applies.
• My original blog post.