grklsh

Greeklish, a portmanteau of the words Greek and English, also known as Grenglish, Latinoellinika/Λατινοελληνικά or ASCII Greek, is the Greek language written using the Latin alphabet.

About

grklsh is a small script written in Python 2 that translates any text into Greeklish. It reads from stdin or from the arguments and prints on stdout or writes to files.

Features

• Type and Enter translation
• File translation

Installation

on Linux and on MacOS

You only need git and of course python2

$ git clone https://github.com/xtonousou/grklsh.git
$ cd grklsh/
$ sudo python2 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

on Windows

You can read this guide

Usage

Table Of Contents

• Type and Enter translation
  • Greek ➝ Greeklish does not require internet connection
  • Any language ➝ Greeklish requires internet connection
• File translation
  • Any language files ➝ New files in Greeklish requires internet connection
  • Any language files ➝ New files in Greeklish (PARTIALLY) requires internet connection
  • Files with Greek characters ➝ New files in Greeklish does not require internet connection
  • Files with Greek characters ➝ New files in Greeklish (PARTIALLY) does not require internet connection

Greek ➝ Greeklish

You just have to type,

$ grklsh.py

Any language ➝ Greeklish

You need to put the -t or --translate argument first like this,

$ grklsh.py -t

Any language files ➝ New files in Greeklish

OK, this one is a bit tricky 😏

You have to put the -t or --translate and -w or --write arguments before each filename

The following example will show you how to use this feature,

$ grklsh.py -t -w file1

This will generate the translated file file1.grklsh

If you want to translate multiple files at once, It doesn't matter the order of the arguments

$ grklsh.py -t -w file1 -w -t file2 -t -w file3

This one, will generate three translated files: file1.grklsh, file2.grklsh and file3.grklsh

Any language files ➝ New files in Greeklish (PARTIALLY)

⁉️ Wait what?

In this case, you have to do it like this,

$ grklsh.py -w -t file1 -w file2 -t file3 -t -w file4 file5

Well, this example will generate a translated file file1.grklsh and a converted (Greek ➝ Greeklish) file file2.grklsh, print the file file3 translated, generate a translated file file4.grklsh and print the converted (Greek ➝ Greeklish) file file5 😁

Files with Greek characters ➝ New files in Greeklish

You have to put the -w or --write argument before each filename

The example below shows how to translate a file into Greeklish and generate a file file1.grklsh which contains the translated text

$ grklsh.py -w file1

If you want to convert multiple files at once,

$ grklsh.py -w file1 -w file2 -w file3

This will generate three files: file1.grklsh, file2.grklsh and file3.grklsh which contain the translated text of each file passed as argument

Files with Greek characters ➝ New files in Greeklish (PARTIALLY)

Hmmm? 😕

You can use the functionality of printing the translated text on stdout and the functionality of writing to files simultaneously

The example below shows the implementation of the above,

$ grklsh.py -w file1 file2 -w file3 -w file4

This will print on stdout the translated text of the file file2 but it will also generate three files: file1.grklsh, file3.grklsh and file4.grklsh which contain the translated text of each file

Credits

• nfldb by BurntSushi for his awesome wiki

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file

License

Copyright (c) 2017 by Sotirios M. Roussis. Some rights reserved.

grklsh is under the terms of the MIT License, following all clarifications stated in the license file