trin is a JavaScript module to transliterate among some Indian scripts.
trin can help you read and write (but not necessarily understand)
text written in an Indian script if you can understand some other Indian script.
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As a web application: Serve
index.htmlfrom an HTTP server. -
As a browser extension to transliterate pages on the web: The extension adds the trin button (labeled 'ट्र') to the bottom-right corner of the web page. On clicking the button, a dialog box allows you to pick which language to transliterate to. You can try the extension (without installing it) at example.html.
Extension for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/trin/. To install the extension in Chrome, first run
make buildto create a zip file. Then visit chrome://extensions/, enable developer mode, and then drag-and-drop the zip file on that page. Alternatively, you can follow the instructions at https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/getstarted/development-basics/#load-unpacked. -
On your own web pages: To add the trin button to the bottom-right corner of your web pages, add these tags to your page's
<head>:<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://sharmaeklavya2.github.io/trin/trin.css" /> <script type="module" src="https://sharmaeklavya2.github.io/trin/trinUI.js?init=true"></script>
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As a JavaScript library:
import('https://sharmaeklavya2.github.io/trin/trin.js') .then((trin) => console.log(trin.trin('ಹೆಸರು', trin.SCRIPTS.devanagari)));
trin uses the fact that most Indian scripts have a similar phonetic spelling system,
and are arranged similarly in their Unicode code blocks.
Hence, switching script mostly just requires adding an offset to each character's code point.
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