Greetings, I thought I would respond to Dominik's emails (plural) with one email, I hope that is easier to understand.
On 2021-11-03 12:20 p.m., Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > The documentation for TEC mapping files mentions the Mapping Editor. > But a) I can't find it for Linux, and b) it "does not handle mapping > descriptions written as Unicode text; it is strictly an 8-bit editing > environment." Is there any chance that these limitations, especially > the latter, might be addressed in future? Especially for Asian > languages that have widely-used transliteration schemes and multiple > alphabets (like Sanskrit), TECket mapping has moved way beyond its > original purpose of mapping legacy 8-bit charsets. I am curious what version of TECkit and/or where you are reading the TECkit documentation (from the download package, or installed in Ubuntu, etc). A few years ago, in the documentation, I added the following note above the text you mention > The mapping editor described below has been superseded by the > SILConverters package, and possibly the LibreOffice Linguistic Tools > add-on, both linked to at the end of this document. In addition, the > source code for the mapping editor is lost. The old mapping editor > binary (from version 2.5.1 in 2006) only ran on Windows, and does not > run well on modern versions on Windows (7 and 10). As a result, this > binary is no longer distributed. > The links are * https://software.sil.org/silconverters * https://software.sil.org/oolt On 2021-11-03 6:22 p.m., Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > Thanks, that's a good idea. And it's not that hard, really, even just > with vi. I was only asking in case there was a fancy gui thing out > there :-) There is a nice GUI for editing TECkit maps in the SIL Converters package. It s Windows. It provides side panels that can show the legacy (8-bit) and Unicode fonts that you are mapping between, if you double click on a character then the character name or codepoint is inserted into the map file. Since I maintain TECkit, I would be happy to create a 'contrib' directory in the source repo <https://github.com/silnrsi/teckit> for items such as the vi syntax file that BPJ mentioned if that would be useful to people. Bobby -- Bobby de Vos /bobby_de...@sil.org/