On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
Hi gang,
For Arabic we use a Latin transcription in Aleph/(e-)Omega (or even ArabTeX)
unless one of the encoding filters like utf-8 is used. Even for utf-8 files,
however, it would be very useful to be able to convert a utf-8 file to Latin
transcription for further processing by Aleph/(e-)Omega. For example, adding
diacritics is much easier to do in Latin than in an Arabic script editor
because Latin transcription is one-dimensional and adding diacritics to
Arabic is a 2-dimen affair.
The best thing would be a perl script but I don't know perl at all (except to
run some some precreated scripts). If someone out of the kindness of their
heart could write a short and simple script for just seven characters I could
do the rest myself and present it back here.
Can you use (or extend) GNU recode? It does include support for
utf-8 and several TeX encodings.
From the manual: "It is easy for a programmer to add a new charset to
`recode'. All it requires is making a few functions kept in a single `.c'
file, adjusting `Makefile.am' and remaking `recode'."
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