hermanschaaf / hanzidentifier

Python module that identifies Chinese text as being simplified or traditional

Hanzi Identifier

About

Hanzi Identifier is a simple Python module that identifies a string of text has having simplified or traditional characters.

There are five possible return values:

• None: there are no recognized Chinese characters in the string.
• hanzidentifier.EITHER: the string could be simplified or traditional -- the test is inconclusive.
• hanzidentifier.TRAD: the string consists of traditional characters.
• hanzidentifier.SIMP: the string consists of simplified characters.
• hanzidentifier.BOTH: the string consists of characters recognized solely as traditional characters and also consists of characters recognized solely as simplified characters.

>>> import hanzidentifier
>>> hanzidentifier.identify('Hello my name is Thomas.') is None
True
>>> hanzidentifier.identify(u'Thomas 说：你好！') is hanzidentifier.SIMP
True
>>> hanzidentifier.identify(u'Thomas 說：你好！') is hanzidentifier.TRAD
True
>>> hanzidentifier.identify(u'你好！') is hanzidentifier.EITHER
True
>>> hanzidentifier.identify(u'Country in simplified: 国家. Country in traditional: 國家' ) is hanzidentifier.BOTH
True

License

Hanzi Identifier is released under the OSI-approved MIT License. See the file LICENSE.txt for more information.