https://github.com/hroptatyr/aeiou
ASCII Everywhere, transliteration from UTF-8
https://github.com/hroptatyr/aeiou
c command-line-tool transliterate
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ASCII Everywhere, transliteration from UTF-8
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/hroptatyr/aeiou
- Owner: hroptatyr
- Created: 2017-03-27T12:55:32.000Z (over 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-06-24T16:22:28.000Z (4 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-06-24T17:28:43.794Z (4 months ago)
- Topics: c, command-line-tool, transliterate
- Language: C
- Size: 472 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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README
ASCII Everywhere
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No-frills, zero-dependency command-line tools to convert (transliterate)
between UTF-8 and ASCII.
Red tape
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+ no dependencies other than a POSIX system and a C99 compiler
+ licensed under [BSD3c][1]
Motivation
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We believe that ASCII is still the common denominator in automated data
oriented or manual data heavy work flows. In those fields it is common
to interact simultaneously with lots of local peculiarities.
We do not believe that today's systems (i18n, l10n, locales, `LANG`
variables and whatnot) are suited for the most basic tasks, for example
rewriting a set of local date formats to ISO 8601, or times from
different local timezones as Zulu times.
The new Zulu timezone for character encodings is UTF-8 Unicode but
historically has been 7-bit ASCII as is evident in the DNS or protocols
like SMTP.
So called user-friendly rapid-development languages like Python don't
work at all when the environment isn't in sync with the expectations of
the author. Heavy-duty tools like sort or grep behave differently for
different environments. ASCII, however, seems to be the remedy to all
problems.
`translit`
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Tool to transliterate between UTF-8 encoded files and ASCII. Based on
Sean Burke's [Text::Unidecode][2]. Unlike the perl version, `translit`
can maintain case:
$ translit <