Announcing Pinyin for Ruby

This is a little library I wrote to convert between various romanization systems for Chinese. It currently supports Hanyu pinyin, Wade Giles, Zhuyin Fuhao (BoPoMoFo) and IPA (international phonetic alphabet).

A number of different systems to represent tones are supported : numbers, stand alone tone marks, accents or no tones. Take note that not all combinations make sense. E.g. ipa + accents will not yield useful results. However, numbers and standalone marks can be used with any system.

To get it do this

$ gem instal pinyin --source http://gems.arnebrasseur.net

Alternatively download the tarbal here.