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

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 02:27:19PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 03:58:43PM +0530, Dhananjay wrote:
> > An ASCII to unicode conversion utility.
> > 
> > Package name: payyans
> > URL: http://wiki.smc.org.in/Payyans
> > Description:Payyans is a python program to convert the data written
> > for ascii fonts in ascii format to the Unicode format.
> 
> Uhm, but Debian already contains an ASCII->Unicode converter.  It's called
> "cat".  There's also an in-place version, /bin/true.  This assumes UTF-8,
> but other Unicode encodings are not supported in a vast majority of tools
> anyway, and iconv can handle them.
> 
> What payyans seems to do is converting from some other encoding where for
> example the octet 65 (0x41) doesn't mean "A" but "അ", 66 is "ക" and so on.
> This is definitely not ASCII; it's about as close to it as to EBCDIC.

And we already have the 'iconv' and 'recode' commands to do conversion
between arbitrary character encodings.

Ben.

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