unicode2ascii - Unicode to Ascii command-line tool
unicode2ascii [-a|--analyze] [-t|--translated] [-u|--untranslated] [--debug] [--help|-?] [--version] [--]
The unicode2ascii utility filters Unicode characters in the standard input and replaces them by their standard or corrected Unicode equivalent, or its internal equivalent if missing in Unicode.
Command line options disable filtering mode and analyze Unicode characters (-a option) or report (un)translated Unicode characters (-t and -u options) in a format suitable for updating the source code.
| Options | Use |
|---|---|
| -a|--analyze | Analyze Unicode characters. Disable filter mode |
| -t|--translated | Report translated Unicode characters. Disable filter mode |
| -u|--untranslated | Report untranslated Unicode characters. Disable filter mode |
| --debug | Enable debug mode |
| --help|-? | Print usage and a short help message and exit |
| --version | Print version and exit |
| -- | Options processing terminator |
The UNICODE2ASCII_DEBUG environment variable can also be set to any value to enable debug mode.
The unicode2ascii utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
The unicode2ascii utility is not a standard UNIX/POSIX command.
It tries to follow the PEP 8 style guide for Python code.
This utility was made for The PNU project.
This utility is available under the 3-clause BSD license.
So far, only the following Unicode character sets are processed for missing ASCII equivalents:
- C0 control characters
- C1 control characters
- Basic Latin characters
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Latin Extended-A
- Latin Extended-B
- Latin Extended Additional
- IPA Extensions
- Spacing Modifier Letters
- Unicode symbols
- General Punctuation
- Number Forms
- Cyrillic