20250427_00-release

 - bug fix for filtering STDIO pipes
 - added a shell script wrapper to source in your .bashrc, presumable with the virtual environment activated.

Author: unixwzrd

.gitignore

@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
 .LSOverride
 
 # Icon must end with two \r
-Icon
+Icon
+
 
 # Thumbnails
 ._*
@@ -229,3 +230,24 @@ pyrightconfig.json
 
 # Custom rules (everything added below won't be overriden by 'Generate .gitignore File' if you use 'Update' option)
 
+.swp
+
+# Swap
+[._]*.s[a-v][a-z]
+!*.svg  # comment out if you don't need vector files
+[._]*.sw[a-p]
+[._]s[a-rt-v][a-z]
+[._]ss[a-gi-z]
+[._]sw[a-p]
+
+# Session
+Session.vim
+Sessionx.vim
+
+# Temporary
+.netrwhist
+*~
+# Auto-generated tag files
+tags
+# Persistent undo
+[._]*.un~

README.md

@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ Normalizes Unicode to ASCII equivalents.
   - [What's in This Repo:](#whats-in-this-repo)
   - [Contributing](#contributing)
   - [Support This and Other Projects I Have](#support-this-and-other-projects-i-have)
+  - [Changelog](#changelog)
+    - [2025-04-27](#2025-04-27)
+    - [2025-04-26](#2025-04-26)
   - [License](#license)
 
 ## Installation
@@ -119,6 +122,16 @@ If you find this project useful, please tell others, and consider supporting my
 
 Thank you!
 
+
+## Changelog
+
+### 2025-04-27
+ - bug fix for filtering STDIO pipes
+ - added a shell script wrapper to source in your .bashrc, presumable with the virtual environment activated.
+
+### 2025-04-26
+- Initial release.
+
 ## License
 
 Copyright 2025  

bin/cleanup-text.py

@@ -64,9 +64,17 @@ def main():
         None
     """
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Clean Unicode quirks from text.")
-    parser.add_argument("infile", nargs="+", help="Input file(s)")
+    parser.add_argument("infile", nargs="*", help="Input file(s)")
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
+    if not args.infile:
+        # No files provided: filter mode (STDIN to STDOUT)
+        import sys
+        raw = sys.stdin.read()
+        cleaned = clean_text(raw)
+        sys.stdout.write(cleaned)
+        return
+
     seen = set()
     for infile in args.infile:
         if infile in seen:

bin/uniclean

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+uniclean.sh

bin/uniclean.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Uniclean is a wrappet fro cleanup-text.py which ensures the proper virtual environment
+# is activated and the script is run from the root of the project.
+
+# Activate the virtual environment
+source "${HOME}/.bashrc"
+
+# Run the cleanup-text.py script
+cleanup-text.py "$@"