node-opencc

Translates between Traditional and Simplified Chinese in pure Node.js

(This library use OpenCC for its dictionary database and test data)

OpenCC is a translation library for Traditional and Simplified Chinese with dictionary of localized phrases and verbs. But it only runs on Python (or Node.js with Python installed).

node-opencc is a brand new project that imports OpenCC database and test case, and translates text without installing any native components.

Usage

You can only access node-opencc programmatically. Since dictionaries are huge, they are loaded asynchronously with Promise interface. Thus, all translations on node-opencc will return thenable.

For example,

const opencc = require('node-opencc');

opencc.hongKongToSimplified('滑鼠').then(result => result === '鼠标');
opencc.traditionalToHongKong('僞').then(result => result === '偽');

node-opencc supports multiple type of translations:

• Hong Kong to Simplified Chinese (hongKongToSimplified)
• Simplified Chinese to Hong Kong (simplifiedToHongKong)
• Simplified Chinese to Traditional Chinese (simplifiedToTraditional)
• Simplified Chinese to Taiwan (simplifiedToTaiwan)
• Simplified Chinese to Taiwan with phrases (simplifiedToTaiwanWithPhrases)
• Traditional Chinese to Hong Kong (traditionalToHongKong)
• Traditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese (traditionalToSimplified)
• Traditional Chinese to Taiwan (traditionalToTaiwan)
• Taiwan to Simplified Chinese (taiwanToSimplified)
• Taiwan to Simplified Chinese with phrases (taiwanToSimplifiedWithPhrases)

What's not working

Although node-opencc tries to redo OpenCC with pure JavaScript, there are features that are not working as in OpenCC. node-opencc currently do not support the following features:

• Multiple alternative phrases, verbs, and characters

Changelog

• 2016-02-25 (0.0.2): First public release

Contribution

You may want to head to OpenCC for dictionary contribution.

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To contribute to the code base of node-opencc, please file a pull request with unit tests.