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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 acommandline utility or alibrary.

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 usinglang 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.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem'tate'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install tate

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

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

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

You can pipe the output of another command into tate.

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

There are custom filters for:

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

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

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

What's next?

Russian, Irish, Arabic, and Yoruba.

Yes.

This gem is tested against the following Ruby versions:

• ✅3.4.1 (stable)
• ✅3.3.6 (stable)
• ✅3.2.6 (stable)
• ⏳3.1.6 (security maintenance)
• 🪦3.0.7 (end of life)

After checking out the repo, runbin/setup to install dependencies. Then, runrake spec to run the tests. You can also runbin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, runbundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number inversion.rb, and then runbundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the.gem file torubygems.org.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b add-irish-support)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add Irish language support')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin add-irish-support)
5. Create a new Pull Request

You can add custom language filters underlib/rules directory.

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tate is short fortransliterate.

Nobody has time to type transliterate in the terminal.

Copyright © 2016-2025Kerem Bozdas

This project is available under the terms of theMIT License.