A Ruby gem that converts a string consisting of Simplified Chinese characters into Hanyu Pinyin.
It adds a ‘to_pinyin’ method to the String class.
Example Usage:
require ‘rubygems’ require ‘string_to_pinyin’
a = ‘名’ puts a.to_pinyin # “míng”
*Note: It requires the unix program ‘grep’ to be installed
Installation:
<sudo> gem install ruby_string_to_pinyin
License:
The MIT License. See LICENSE file for more information.
See also two alternative gems: github.com/superslau/pinyinify github.com/chenillen/pinyin