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 >>> >> -- >> -- >> FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] >> http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> Mailing List Guidelines: >> http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines >> Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "FOSS Nepal" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > > > -- > Santa B. Basnet > Department of Computer Science & Engineering > Nepal Engineering College > Changunarayan, Bhaktapur, Nepal > > > -- > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "FOSS Nepal" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FOSS Nepal" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
