The GITS Blog » full-width http://ginstrom.com/scribbles Random scribbling about programming, translation, and Japan Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:07:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 wchartype: Python module to get full-width (double-byte) character types http://ginstrom.com/scribbles/2008/09/28/wchartype-python-module-to-get-full-width-double-byte-character-types/ http://ginstrom.com/scribbles/2008/09/28/wchartype-python-module-to-get-full-width-double-byte-character-types/#comments Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:22:43 +0000 Ryan Ginstrom http://ginstrom.com/scribbles/?p=342 When dealing with full-width (especially CJK) characters, you'll often want to know the type of a particular character — Kanji/Hanzi/Hanja, hiragana, katakana, and so on.

wchartype is a Python module that will determine the type of a full-width character. The functions all expect Unicode strings of length one.

Usage:

import wchartype
if wchartype.is_asian(u'\u65e5′):
    print u"\u65e5 is an Asian character"

sentence = u"this has ひらがな"
if any(wchartype.is_hiragana(x) for x in sentence):
    print "'%s' has one or more hiragana characters" % sentence
 

wchartype has a home on pypi and can be installed via easy_install:

easy_install wchartype
 

Here is the permanent page for wchartype.

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