From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 17:37:52 EDT
On 10/24/2002 02:28:10 PM ftang wrote:
>Dear unicoder:
>
>I am looking for open source tool (C / C++ / Perl or Java) to convert
>between (UTF-8/UTF-16 or ISCII) and differnt Indict font encoding.
I assume that these are non-standard encodings, and probably
presentation-form encodings. If so, we don't have mappings specifically for
these encodings, but our TECkit package could be used to handle such
mappings. The advantage that TECkit offers over other available tools that
I know of is that we designed it specifically to be able to cope with
visually-ordered presentation-form encodings. So, for instance, it has
mechanisms to deal with context-sensitive mappings and reorderings.
You asked for something in languages such as C, etc. TECkit provides a
generic conversion engine as a library; there's a generic mapping
description language, so you write the description for the legacy encoding
<> Unicode CCS (the descriptions are neutral with regard to encoding forms
/ schemes), and then compile that description into a binary format (for
fast execution). The same compiled format can be used on the Mac or on
Windows. (Sorry, no Linux version yet, but source code is available.)
For further details, go to the TECkit pages on our site:
http://www.sil.org/nrsi/teckit/
- Peter
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Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
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E-mail: <peter_constable@sil.org>
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