Transliterating from Greek and Latin

The code we use to transliterate names from Greek and Latin writing systems in the style of the Barrington Atlas is now available from our package index:

$ easy_install -i http://atlantides.org/eggcarton/index/ pleiades.transliteration

For example, the name Ἀφροδεισιάδος from an edition of a letter from Trajan to Smyrna [IAph 2007 8.33] is transliterated to Aphrodeisiados:

>>> from pleiades.transliteration import transliterate_name
>>> s = u'\u1f08\u03c6\u03c1\u03bf\u03b4\u03b5\u03b9\u03c3\u03b\u03ac\u03b4\u03bf\u03c2'
>>> transliterate_name('grc', s)
'Aphrodeisiados'