Convert to and from wylie with Python

This is a very thin wrapper on the Perl converter found on THL website.

The size limitation on the website(1Mb max) are lifted.

Exposed functions

• Within Python, unicode2wylie(text) and wylie2unicode(text) return the transcoded strings.

  Limitation:

  wylie2unicode and unicode2wylie both send the string to be transcoded as the commandline argument Perl receives. As such, strings should not be higher than the limit allowed for command-line arguments.

  For Windows: as seen here, 2047 or 8191 characters.

  For Posix systems: as seen here, 2097152 (my output of getconf ARG_MAX)

• batch_convert(mode, include_orig) simply wraps wylieconvert/Lingua-BO-Wylie/bin/wylie.pl and converts all .txt files from input/ to output/. The folders are created if missing on the first run of the script.

• batch_converter.py wraps batch_convert for the command line.

  Syntax: python3 batch_converter.py <mode> <include_orig>

  • mode can either be w2u or u2w
  • include_orig is optional and should be true

  Ex: python3 batch_converter.py u2w will convert all .txt files from unicode to wylie, not including the original.

Licence

The downloadable zip does not contain any information about licence nor states the author.

Any help finding this information will be appreciated.