Thanks Santosh. Write access is enabled now - missed that :)

ttf-2-unicode looks useful. Perhaps someone from the community would like
to peek into it.

Anjesh


On 13 November 2013 21:32, Santa Basnet <[email protected]> wrote:

> This link could be useful for your data conversion.
>
> http://nepalinlp.blogspot.com/2010/09/few-years-back-ttf-to-unicode.html
>
> In,
> Santa Basnet
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:05 PM, sapradhan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> nice initiative,
>>
>> I looked into the pdf and it seems that there are two fonts in use Preeti
>> and PCS Nepali. It turns out PCS Nepali has different keymapping than
>> Preeti specifically the numeric layer ie ^‌=ट ,  &=ठ  ,  *=ड and so forth
>> which is causing quite a few errors. If it is feasible change the mapping
>> based on the font being used, the conversion should be better.
>>
>> If it would be quicker to do this manually I can help. I dont have write
>> access to google docs, please do the needful
>> thanks
>> santosh
>>
>> On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 6:19:09 PM UTC+5:45, prawesh wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> If you look at this constituency http://election.opennepal.net:8000/#/
>>> constituency/39, there are lots of issues with unicode, which should
>>> not have been if the data were available in proper format. We scraped the
>>> data (in Nepali Preeti font) from http://www.election.gov.
>>> np/oldecn/NP/pollinglist/dist_const_list.html. The task was not easy,
>>> https://github.com/foss-np/2utf8 was used to convert Preeti to Unicode.
>>> There could be problems in either conversion as well as scraping. We think
>>> that it might be quick to get help from the community to resolve these
>>> issues. For ease, we have maintained all the scraped polling centers
>>> district-wise in the google docs 
>>> here<https://docs.google.com/a/yipl.com.np/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhWLpToTogBwdDR4WWNuQkZMa0I0S0dXQjlCT3pISlE&usp=drive_web#gid=77>.
>>> We plan to release these data in opendatanepal.org as well but after
>>> resolving those issues, for which we seek your help.
>>>
>>> District-file 
>>> sheet<https://docs.google.com/a/yipl.com.np/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhWLpToTogBwdDR4WWNuQkZMa0I0S0dXQjlCT3pISlE&usp=drive_web#gid=78>
>>>  lists
>>> the districts and appropriate polling-list pdf file (from which we
>>> scraped). And the corresponding district page has all the polling centers
>>> (with issues, there might be repetitions as well). We have created columns
>>> for corrected center name and romanized center name. So you could correct
>>> the center names and add in case of missing centers. 
>>> Summary<https://docs.google.com/a/yipl.com.np/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhWLpToTogBwdDR4WWNuQkZMa0I0S0dXQjlCT3pISlE&usp=drive_web#gid=77>
>>>  shows
>>> the list of districts with issues and corrected name - the google script
>>> will run and update the numbers there. For e.g, Taplejung district 
>>> page<https://docs.google.com/a/yipl.com.np/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhWLpToTogBwdDR4WWNuQkZMa0I0S0dXQjlCT3pISlE&usp=drive_web#gid=2>seems
>>>  to have 3-4 issues in names. Thank you so much for your help.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> With Regards,
>>>
>>> Prawesh Shrestha
>>>
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