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Summary: Review Request: python-unidecode - US-ASCII transliterations of Unicode text
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720447
Summary: Review Request: python-unidecode - US-ASCII transliterations of Unicode text Product: Fedora Version: rawhide Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: medium Priority: medium Component: Package Review AssignedTo: nobody@fedoraproject.org ReportedBy: pj.pandit@yahoo.co.in QAContact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org CC: notting@redhat.com, package-review@lists.fedoraproject.org Classification: Fedora Story Points: ---
Spec URL: http://pjp.dgplug.org/tools/python-unidecode.spec SRPM URL: http://pjp.dgplug.org/tools/python-unidecode-0.04.7-1.fc14.src.rpm
Description: <description here> 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.
For example 'unidecode(u"u5317u4EB0")' returns 'Bei Jing'.
This is a Python port of Text::Unidecode Perl module by Sean M. Burke.