class LinguisticProcessingAPI:
“””
Core API for receiving, processing, and outputting linguistic data.
Initially focuses on English and other Latin-script languages.
“””
def __init__(self):
# Supported languages mapped to script metadata
self.supported_languages = {
"en": {"script": "Latin", "description": "English"},
"es": {"script": "Latin", "description": "Spanish"},
"fr": {"script": "Latin", "description": "French"},
"de": {"script": "Latin", "description": "German"},
"it": {"script": "Latin", "description": "Italian"},
"pt": {"script": "Latin", "description": "Portuguese"},
}
# Valid graphemes set for Latin script (letters, numbers, punctuation, common diacritics)
valid_chars = (
"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
"0123456789"
" .,!?;:'\"()-—–—/\\&@#%*+"
"áàâäãåā㥹ĆćČčĎďÉÈÊËĚěĞğĢģĦħ"
"ÍÌÎÏīĮįİıĶķĹĺĻļĽľŁł"
"ŃńŇňŅņÓÒÔÖÕØŌŏŐőŒœ"
"РрŔŕŘřŚśŠšŞşŢţŤťÜÙÛÜŰűŪūŮůŲųŴŵÝýÿŶŷŸ"
"ŹźŻżŽž"
"Ççß"
"ÆæØøÅå"
"čČšŠžŽđĐ"
"țȚăĂîÎâÂșȘ"
"éñüáóíúäöàèûîïôöâä"
)
self.latin_grapheme_set = set(valid_chars)
# Transformation rules for certain characters/ligatures
self.transformation_rules = {
'ß': 'ss',
'æ': 'ae',
'œ': 'oe',
}
def process_text(self, text: str, language_code: str = "en", input_encoding: str = "utf-8") -> Dict[str, Any]:
"""
Process text to normalize, apply transformations, and validate graphemes.
Returns a dictionary with status, processed text, language used, validation status, and messages.
"""
if not isinstance(text, str):
return {
"status": "failure",
"processed_text": "",
"language": None,
"validation_status": "error",
"validation_messages": ["Invalid input type for 'text'. Must be a string (Unicode)."],
"original_input": text,
"input_language_code": language_code,
}
status = "success"
validation_status = "valid"
validation_messages = []
processing_language = language_code
# Warn if the language code is not supported
if language_code not in self.supported_languages:
validation_status = "warning"
validation_messages.append(
f"Unsupported language code: {language_code}. Processing as generic Latin script.")
processing_language = "generic_latin"
# Basic normalization: lowercase and strip whitespace
processed_text = text.lower().strip()
# Normalize to NFC to unify decomposed/composed forms
processed_text = unicodedata.normalize('NFC', processed_text)
# Apply transformation rules (e.g., ß -> ss, æ -> ae)
for old, new in self.transformation_rules.items():
processed_text = processed_text.replace(old, new)
# Validate characters against the allowed Latin grapheme set
invalid_chars = {c for c in processed_text if c not in self.latin_grapheme_set}
if invalid_chars:
validation_status = "warning"
invalid_repr = ", ".join(repr(c) for c in sorted(invalid_chars))
validation_messages.append(
f"Contains characters outside the defined Latin script grapheme set: {invalid_repr}")
return {
"status": status,
"processed_text": processed_text,
"language": processing_language,
"validation_status": validation_status,
"validation_messages": validation_messages,
"original_input": text,
"input_language_code": language_code,
}
def process_ascii_input(ascii_bytes: bytes, language_code: str = “en”,
api_instance: LinguisticProcessingAPI = None) -> Dict[str, Any]:
“””
Convert byte input to Unicode and invoke the LinguisticProcessingAPI. Useful for
simulating raw ASCII keyboard input or network bytes.
“””
if not isinstance(ascii_bytes, bytes):
return {
“status”: “failure”,
“processed_text”: “”,
“language”: None,
“validation_status”: “error”,
“validation_messages”: [“Invalid input type for ‘ascii_bytes’. Must be a byte string.”],
“original_input”: ascii_bytes,
“input_language_code”: language_code,
}
try:
unicode_text = ascii_bytes.decode('utf-8')
except UnicodeDecodeError as e:
return {
"status": "failure",
"processed_text": "",
"language": None,
"validation_status": "error",
"validation_messages": [f"Failed to decode byte string with UTF-8: {e}"],
"original_input": ascii_bytes,
"input_language_code": language_code,
}
if api_instance is None:
api_instance = LinguisticProcessingAPI()
return api_instance.process_text(unicode_text, language_code=language_code)
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