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Re: Bug#620808: ITP: payyans -- A python utility to convert between ASCII and Unicode.



On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 09:41 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > And we already have the 'iconv' and 'recode' commands to do conversion
> > between arbitrary character encodings.
> 
> These are not character encodings, but specific fonts. See the
> khmerconverter ITP for some earlier discussion on this:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/333331#33

I was thinking that these are ad hoc character encodings defined on the
basis of specific fonts.  (Like Dingbats, for example.)

However, encoding in LTR order even through the script is read RTL
really does seem to make these graphical representations rather than
character encodings.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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