2018-01-05 unidecode 1.0.22
* Move to semantic version numbering, no longer following version
numbers from the original Perl module. This fixes an issue with
setuptools (>= 8) and others expecting major.minor.patch format.
(https://github.com/avian2/unidecode/issues/13)
* Add transliterations for currency signs U+20B0 through U+20BF
(thanks to Mike Swanson)
* Surround transliterations of vulgar fractions with spaces to avoid
incorrect combinations with adjacent numerals
(thanks to Jeffrey Gerard)
* Add U+2116 NUMERO SIGN
* Add U+05BE HEBREW PUNCTUATION MAQAF
unidecode 0.04.20:
* Fixed transliteration of circled Latin letters and numbers
* Add square unit symbols.
* Add Latin variants in U+20xx and U+21xx pages.
* Fix U+02B1 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL H WITH HOOK.
* Fix U+205F MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE.
* Add "DIGIT ... COMMA" and "PARANTHESIZED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER"
in U+1F1xx page.
* Add missing vulgar fractions and a/c, a/s, c/o, c/u symbols.
* Add universal Wheel release
Problems found locating distfiles:
Package cabocha: missing distfile cabocha-0.68.tar.bz2
Package convertlit: missing distfile clit18src.zip
Package php-enchant: missing distfile php-enchant/enchant-1.1.0.tgz
Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden). All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
It often happens that you have text data in Unicode, but you need
to represent it in ASCII. For example when integrating with legacy
code that doesn't support Unicode, or for ease of entry of non-Roman
names on a US keyboard, or when constructing ASCII machine identifiers
from human-readable Unicode strings that should still be somewhat
intelligeble (a popular example of this is when making an URL slug
from an article title).
Note that this module generally produces better results than simply
stripping accents from characters (which can be done in Python with
built-in functions). It is based on hand-tuned character mappings
that for example also contain ASCII approximations for symbols and
non-Latin alphabets.
This is a Python port of Text::Unidecode Perl module by Sean M.
Burke.