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Bug#805054: ITP: teckit -- Encoding conversion tools for plain text files



On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 12:24:05AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Daniel Glassey (2015-11-13 23:54:38)
> > Package name    : teckit
> 
> > Description:
> 
> > TECkit provides a generic library and tools for converting data to and 
> > from Unicode and also from one Unicode encoding to another.
> > It also includes a compiler for a description language that allows for 
> > birectional conversion description (the same description is used for 
> > conversion to and from Unicode, for example).
> 
> How is this different from recode?

Hi Jonas,

My understanding is that teckit is a way to (relatively) easily define 
a mapping for legacy custom encodings to Unicode. It is particularly
useful for converting text documents using legacy non-Unicode fonts  
which use a font specific encoding to Unicode.

It is possible to add custom character sets to recode but afaict that is a
programmer level thing whereas teckit mappings are easier for the font people.

Regards,
Daniel

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