💎 Just released a major update for tate! (v1.0.0) 💎

Release highlights:
👉 Custom filter support
👉 Support for 11 new languages
👉 Improved command line tool

🔗 Check it out!

Tate ✍️

Tate converts accented characters and transliterates non-latin scripts to their closest ASCII equivalent.

Tate is a productivity tool, it behaves like a standard Unix application and can be chained with other Unix commands. It reads from standard input and writes to standard output. You can use it either as a commandline utility or a library.

Examples

Let's say you have a French sentence with a lot of weird characters and you want to convert it into ASCII in the most representative way. You can use:

echo 'Le cœur de la crémiére' | tate  #=> Le coeur de la cremiere

Or some Bulgarian text you can't read:

echo 'Здравей!' | tate --lang=bg  #=> Zdravey!

Set language using lang option for custom filters, e.g. German:

echo 'Von großen Blöcken haut man große Stücke.' | tate --lang=de

Letters ö, ü and ß will be transliterated based on German transliteration rules:

Von grossen Bloecken haut man grosse Stuecke.

Language specific punctuation will be converted to closest ASCII equivalent.

For example, in Catalan, notice how the quotes (cometes franceses) and the interpunct (punt volat) are transliterated:

«Dóna amor que seràs feliç!». Això, il·lús company geniüt, ja és un lluït rètol blavís d’onze kWh.
"Dona amor que seras felic!". Aixo, il-lus company geniut, ja es un lluit retol blavis d'onze kWh.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'tate'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install tate

Usage

Ruby Library

require 'tate'
Tate::transliterate('Zəfər', language='az')  #=> Zefer

Commandline Utility

Usage: tate [options]
-l, --lang=[LANGUAGE]            Set language for custom filters
-h, --help                       Show this message
-v, --version                    Show version

Interactive Mode

If you call tate without providing any arguments, it will expect you to provide input using standard input (keyboard). After you are done typing you can use cmd + D to trigger EOL (End of Line) and the result will printed in the next line.

Standard Streams

You can pipe the output of another command into tate.

curl gov.bg/bg | tate --lang=bg > index.html

Language Support

There are custom filters for:

Azeri, Bulgarian, Catalan, French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

The following languages are known to work (w/o custom filters):

Croatian, Czech, Danish, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuania, Norwegian, Portuguese, Scottish, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, and Welsh.

What's next?

Russian, Irish, Arabic, and Yoruba.

Is it any good?

Yes.

Donations

You can donate me at Librepay. Thanks! ☕️

Trivia

tate is short for t ransliter ate.

Nobody has time to type transliterate in the terminal. 🤷‍♂️

Since you made it this far.. 🤓

Don't forget to ⭐️ my repository if you like it!

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome! ♥️

Happy Hacking,
Kerem