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Greeklish, a portmanteau of the words Greek and English, also known as Grenglish, Latinoellinika/Λατινοελληνικά or ASCII Greek, is the Greek language written using the Latin alphabet.

grklsh is a small script written inPython 2 that translates any text into Greeklish. It reads from stdin or from the arguments and prints on stdout or writes to files.

• Type andEnter translation
• File translation

You only needgit and of coursepython2

$ git clone https://github.com/xtonousou/grklsh.git$cd grklsh/$ sudo python2 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

You can read thisguide

• Type andEnter translation
  • Greek ➝ Greeklishdoes not require internet connection
  • Any language ➝ Greeklishrequires internet connection
• File translation
  • Any language files ➝ New files in Greeklishrequires internet connection
  • Any language files ➝ New files in Greeklish (PARTIALLY)requires internet connection
  • Files with Greek characters ➝ New files in Greeklishdoes not require internet connection
  • Files with Greek characters ➝ New files in Greeklish (PARTIALLY)does not require internet connection

You just have to type,

$ grklsh.py

You need to put the-t or--translate argument first like this,

$ grklsh.py -t

OK, this one is a bit tricky 😏

You have to put the-t or--translate and-w or--write arguments before each filename

The following example will show you how to use this feature,

$ grklsh.py -t -w file1

This will generate the translated filefile1.grklsh

If you want to translate multiple files at once,It doesn't matter the order of the arguments

$ grklsh.py -t -w file1 -w -t file2 -t -w file3

This one, will generate three translated files:file1.grklsh,file2.grklsh andfile3.grklsh

⁉️ Wait what?

In this case, you have to do it like this,

$ grklsh.py -w -t file1 -w file2 -t file3 -t -w file4 file5

Well, this example will generate a translated filefile1.grklsh and a converted (Greek ➝ Greeklish) filefile2.grklsh, print the filefile3 translated, generate a translated filefile4.grklsh and print the converted (Greek ➝ Greeklish) filefile5 😁

You have to put the-w or--write argument before each filename

The example below shows how to translate a file into Greeklish and generate a filefile1.grklsh which contains the translated text

$ grklsh.py -w file1

If you want to convert multiple files at once,

$ grklsh.py -w file1 -w file2 -w file3

This will generate three files:file1.grklsh,file2.grklsh andfile3.grklsh which contain the translated text of each file passed as argument

Hmmm? 😕

You can use the functionality of printing the translated text on stdout and the functionality of writing to files simultaneously

The example below shows the implementation of the above,

$ grklsh.py -w file1 file2 -w file3 -w file4

This will print on stdout the translated text of the filefile2 but it will also generate three files:file1.grklsh,file3.grklsh andfile4.grklsh which contain the translated text of each file

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All notable changes to this project will be documented inthis file

Copyright (c)2017 bySotirios M. Roussis. Some rights reserved.

grklsh is under the terms of the MIT License, following all clarifications stated in thelicense file