translit

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translit

A collection of utilities for transliterating non-Latin scripts into Latin (and reverse, where applicable).

Installation

1. Set up go

   Download: https://golang.org/dl/ (1.13 or higher)
   Installation instructions: https://golang.org/doc/install

2. Clone the source code

   $ git clone https://github.com/stts-se/translit.git
$ cd translit

3. Test (optional)

   translit$ go test ./...

4. Pre-compile binaries

   translit$ go install ./...

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Language versions

Arabic Buckwalter

translit$ buckwalter <arabic text>

References:

• http://www.qamus.org/transliteration.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckwalter_transliteration

Farsi

EI (2012)

translit$ far2lat <farsi text>

References:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Persian

Greek

Simplified version of ALA-LC [3]

translit$ grc2lat <greek text>

References:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek#Modern_Greek

Russian

A simplified version of the 'Road signs' system.

For Swedish style transliteration, we are using a simplified version TT's recommendations (link below).

translit$ rus2lat <russian text>

References:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian
• https://tt.se/tt-spraket/ord-och-begrepp/internationellt/andra-sprak/ryska/

Tamil

ISO 15919

translit$ tamil2lat <tamil text>

References:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_script

Documentation

Index

• func IsFile(fName string) bool
• func NFC(s string) string
• func ReadFile(fn string) ([]string, error)
• func SortKeysByFreq(m map[string]int) []string
• func StringsContains(slice []string, elem string) bool
• func Upcase(s string) string
• func UpcaseInitial(s string) string
• func UpcaseInitials(s string) []string
• type UnicodeChar
  • func UnicodeInfo(s string) []UnicodeChar

Functions

func IsFile

func IsFile(fName string) bool

func NFC

func NFC(s string) string

NFC convert string

func ReadFile

func ReadFile(fn string) ([]string, error)

func SortKeysByFreq

func SortKeysByFreq(m map[string]int) []string

func StringsContains

func StringsContains(slice []string, elem string) bool

func Upcase

func Upcase(s string) string

Upcase string

func UpcaseInitial

func UpcaseInitial(s string) string

UpcaseInitial upcase first character, downcase the rest

func UpcaseInitials

func UpcaseInitials(s string) []string

UpcaseInitials generate all variations upcasing a first group of characters, downcasing the rest

Types

type UnicodeChar

type UnicodeChar struct {
	Char, Name, Code, Block string
}

func UnicodeInfo

func UnicodeInfo(s string) []UnicodeChar