Source code for tamil.tscii2utf8

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# (C) 2013 Muthiah Annamalai

from sys import argv, exit, version
import tamil
import codecs

PYTHON3 = version[0] > '2'

def usage():
    return u"tscii2utf8.py <filename-1> <filename-2> ... "

if __name__ == u"__main__":
    if not argv[1:]:
        print( usage() )
        exit(-1)

    for fname in argv[1:]:
        try:
            with codecs.open(fname,'r','utf-8') as fileHandle:
                output = tamil.tscii.convert_to_unicode( fileHandle.read() )
                if PYTHON3:                    
                    print( output )
                else:
                    print( output.encode('utf-8') )
        except Exception as fileOrConvException:
            print(u"tscii2utf8 error - file %s could not be processed due to - %s"%(fname,str(fileOrConvException)))