transliteratemodule

Python module written in C++ to convert transliterated representation of ancient languages to unicode (TLG's beta code and LaTeX cjhebrew markup)

This library converts “transliterated” representations of non-English languages, like TLG's Beta Code, to unicode. Supported transliterations are:

• The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae’s Beta Code for Polytonic Greek, Hebrew and Coptic.
• cjhebrew transliteration from the LaTeX package by that name

I don’t know much about Coptic, so the functions for that language remain untested. The Beta Code representation for Hebrew does not support vowel and diacritical marks by design, cjhebrew does.

I’m only using the cjhebrew implementation with some earnest. None of the other codecs see production use here.

Function definitions in Python would look like:

def betacode_greek_to_unicode(source, precombined=False, asterisk_syntax=False):
    """
    If `precombined` is True, output unicode codepoints that have 
        diacritical characters in them. 
    If `asterisk_syntax` is used, upper case Greek letters are marked by a “*”, 
        otherwise upper case Latin is mapped to upper case Greek.
    
    """"

def cjhebrew_to_unicode(source):
    pass
    
def betacode_hebrew_to_unicode(source):
    # Untested!
    pass
    
def betacode_coptic_to_unicode(source):
    # Untested!
    pass
    

If anyone finds this useful, please let me know your milage!

Diedrich Vorberg diedrich@tux4web.de