Quoting Daniel Glassey (2015-11-14 01:01:19) > 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? > 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. Thanks for those details. Seems appropriate to me to include in long description. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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