pinyinlib.el

Library for converting first letter of Pinyin to Simplified/Traditional Chinese characters.

Functions

buildRegexpChar

buildRegexpChar converts a letter to a regular expression containing all the Chinese characters whose pinyins start with the letter. It accepts five parameters:

char [noPuncP] [traditionalP] [onlyChineseP] [mixedP]

The first parameter char is the letter to be converted. The latter four parameters are optional.

• If noPuncP is true: it will not convert English punctuations to Chinese punctuations.
• If traditionalP is true: traditional Chinese characters are used instead of simplified Chinese characters.
• If onlyChineseP is true: the resulting regular expression doesn't contain the English letter char.
• If mixedP is true: the resulting regular expression will contain both traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters.

When converting English punctuactions to Chinese/English punctuations, it uses the following table:

English Punctuation	Chinese & English Punctuations
.	。.
,	，,
?	？?
:	：:
!	！!
;	；;
\	、\
(	（(
)	）)
<	《<
>	》>
~	～~
'	‘’「」'
"	“”『』"
*	×*
$	￥$

buildRegexpString

It is same as buildRegexpChar, except that its first parameter is a string so that it can convert a sequence of letters to a regular expression.

Packages that Use This Library

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Acknowledgment

Contribute

Contributions are always welcome. If you want to add some common pinyin related functions that might be useful for other packages, please send me a PR.