Convert Hebrew between standard Unicode UTF-8 encoding and Tiqwah* ASCII representation, also phonetic SAMPA IPA
Håper is Norwegian for 'hope,' equivalent to Hebrew תִקְוָה /tiqwah/ or “tikvah.”
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Tiqwah is an encoding developed by Yannis Haralambous for LaTeX editing of scholarly versions of ancient Hebrew and Aramaic documents. This is not yet a complete implementation. Also, the three letter codes for te'amim and other symbols are surrounded by angle brackets
<XXX>-- previously they were in curly braces{XXX}instead for use in HTML/XML. I don't expect them to be often embedded directly in markup. -
The inspiration for this project was part of another quest; testing the hypothesis that Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura's musicological interpretation that the te'amim, Hebrew Bible symbols for cantillation, could be understood as individual notes and decorations rather than patterns.
usage: transliterate.py [-h] [-v] [-t] [-u] [-s] input_file_name output_file_name
haaper: Convert one Hebrew encoding to another
positional arguments:
input_file_name file to be processed
output_file_name result file
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --verbose verbose flag
-t, --tiqwah, --tiqwah2unicode
Convert Tiqwah ASCII format to unicode Hebrew
-u, --unicode, --unicode2tiqwah
Convert unicode Hebrew to Tiqwah ASCII
-s, --sampa, --tiqwah2sampa
Convert Tiqwah ASCII to SAMPA phonetic ASCII