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any PHP or Ruby library to convert Tranditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese or vice versa?

Is there any PHP or Ruby library to convert Tranditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese or vice versa (Big5 <--> GB)? The iconv library won't do it, as it merely converts the encoding, but the glyph stays the same.

Solution

  • You might get some leverage with 1.9

    Encoding.constants.grep /gb/i => [:GB18030, :GBK, :GB1988, :GB12345]

    Encoding.constants.grep /big5/i => [:Big5, :BIG5, :Big5_HKSCS, :BIG5_HKSCS, :Big5_UAO, :BIG5_UAO]

    so it's something like

    How can I convert a string from windows-1252 to utf-8 in Ruby?

    original = File.open('name', 'r:original_encoding').read

    original.force_encoding('new_encoding')

    Though I've never tried it.