any_ascii 1.0.0+1

Unicode to ASCII transliteration for Dart, ported from the anyascii project.

any_ascii - Unicode to ASCII transliteration for Dart

Introduction

any_ascii is a Unicode to ASCII transliteration library for Dart, ported from the anyascii project.

It converts Unicode characters to their best ASCII representation. Text is converted character-by-character. The mappings for each script are based on popular existing romanization systems. Symbolic characters are converted based on their meaning or appearance. All ASCII characters in the input are left unchanged. Unknown characters are removed.

The translation was done using Claude. If you find any bugs or incomplete behavior, feel free to open an issue or raise a PR.

Description

Unicode to ASCII transliteration for Dart, ported from the anyascii project.

Converts Unicode characters to their closest ASCII equivalent without considering context. Supports scripts from across the Unicode standard including Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, CJK, Arabic, Hebrew, and many more.

Installation

Go to https://pub.dev/packages/any_ascii for the latest version of any_ascii

Usage

import 'package:any_ascii/any_ascii.dart';

void main() {
  print(anyAscii('άνθρωποι')); // anthropoi
  print(anyAscii('Борис')); // Boris
  print(anyAscii('深圳')); // ShenZhen
  print(anyAsciiChar('æ')); // ae
  print(anyAsciiChar('👑')); // :crown:
}

Development

Requirements

• Dart SDK >=3.10.0
• Rust (required only for regenerating the data file)

Installing Rust

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Verify the installation:

rustc --version
cargo --version

Regenerating the data file

The file lib/src/_data.dart is generated from the anyascii Rust crate. It is committed to the repository and does not need to be regenerated unless you want to update to a newer version of the anyascii data.

To regenerate:

./scripts/generate.sh

This runs the Rust generator at any-ascii-generate/src/main.rs which iterates all Unicode codepoints, calls the anyascii Rust crate for each, and writes the resulting Map<int, String> to lib/src/_data.dart.

To update the anyascii data version, change the version in any-ascii-generate/Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
any_ascii = "x.y.z"

Then run ./scripts/generate.sh again.

Running tests

dart test

Contacts

Please feel free to reach out via the repository.

About

• Package URL: https://pub.dev/packages/any_ascii
• Repo URL: https://github.com/ganeshrvel/pub_any_ascii

License

any_ascii | Unicode to ASCII transliteration for Dart. MIT License.