On Wednesday 17 Oct 2012, Ravishankar Shrivastava (रवि-रतलामी) wrote:
> On 10/17/2012 6:01 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a spreadsheet made out of data captured in the field that
> > contains what is purported to be Devnagari, but in some weird
> > encoding.
> >
> > Sample:
> >> loth firk tkSnk eh.kk] y{e.k firk tkSnk eh.kk] /kUuk firk oDlh
> >> eh.kk] fuoklh & nkekrkykc
>
> The data is in most popular old 8bit font - Krutidev010 Hindi.
> It can be converted to unicode through converters like this -
>
> सवजी पिता जौदा मीणा, लक्ष्मण पिता जौदा मीणा, धन्ना पिता वक्सी
> मीणा,
>
> निवासी - दामातालाब
>
>
> Then Unicode Hindi can easily be converted to Phonetic-Roman.
>
>
> You can find one such converter (Krutidev>Unicode) online here:
> http://raviratlami.blogspot.com/2010/10/blog-post_22.html
Thanks for the info about Krutidev010. I need to do bulk conversion of
multiple spreadsheets, so will look for a command-line FOSS tool to do
this. Well, even an algorithm is fine -- I can create a tool around it.
Any pointers appreciated.
Regards,
-- Raj
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