This xmpp bot converts russian text into latin script (transliteration). The list of encode tables available by ':help' command.

Tested on Python 2.7

Install package using setuptools, virtualenv:

mkdir transbot
cd transbot
virtualenv --python=python2.7 env
source env/bin/activate
pip install git+git://github.com/vasnake/transbot.git@master
# or download package and exec
python setup.py install

Change account settings in the file translit_xmpp_bot.py:

USER = "[email protected]"
PASSWORD = "google account passphrase"
SERVER = "gmail.com"

or set environment vars for using GTalk account:

export TRANSBOT_USER='bot [email protected]'
export TRANSBOT_PASSWORD='secret'
export TRANSBOT_SERVER='gmail.com'
export PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8

and start bot:

python -m translitbot

Or you can just use module enc.py in your code:

>>> import translitbot.enc as enc
>>> inStr = u'опля'
>>> outStr = enc.translit(inStr, enc.DRIVELICMODE)

Or make chat with my bot xmpp:[email protected]

For detaching program from console (daemon mode) you can use screen command. For example:

screen -d -R transbot

Transliteration can be done with those tables

• py trans https://github.com/zzzsochi/trans
• ALA-LC
• BGN/PCGN (1944)
• ISO 9:1995, ГОСТ 7.79-2000 система А
• ISO 9:1995, ГОСТ 7.79-2000 система Б
• ISO/R 9 (1968), ГОСТ 16876-71, СТ СЭВ 1362-78, ООН (1987) таблица 1
• ISO/R 9 (1968), ГОСТ 16876-71, СТ СЭВ 1362-78, ООН (1987) таблица 2
• Британский стандарт (1958)
• Водительское удостоверение (2000)
• ГОСТ Р 52535.1-2006
• Загранпаспорт (1997—2010)
• Международные телеграммы
• Научная

All this tables has been taken from http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Транслитерация_русского_алфавита_латиницей except 'py trans'.