Re: Bug#620808: ITP: payyans -- A python utility to convert between ASCII and Unicode.
Sorry about making the mistake and been in silence for a while, it is my first ITP request. Payyans is written to convert documents prepared in malayalam ( An indic language used in Kerala, India) using ASCII maps to Unicode. Provided with mapping files which informs payyans about the font mappings used, it should work with any indic language to address same problem. On 7 April 2011 08:08, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Also note the uni2ascii package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87oc4ipyyw@jidanni.org -- Regards, Dhananjay.
Re: Bug#620808: ITP: payyans -- A python utility to convert between ASCII and Unicode.
Also note the uni2ascii package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87oc4ipyyw@jidanni.org
Re: Bug#620808: ITP: payyans -- A python utility to convert between ASCII and Unicode.
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 09:41 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: And we already have the 'iconv' and 'recode' commands to do conversion between arbitrary character encodings. These are not character encodings, but specific fonts. See the khmerconverter ITP for some earlier discussion on this: http://bugs.debian.org/31#33 I was thinking that these are ad hoc character encodings defined on the basis of specific fonts. (Like Dingbats, for example.) However, encoding in LTR order even through the script is read RTL really does seem to make these graphical representations rather than character encodings. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#620808: ITP: payyans -- A python utility to convert between ASCII and Unicode.
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org An ASCII to unicode conversion utility. Package name: payyans Version: latest Upstream Authors:Santhosh Thottingal, Nishan Naseer, Rajeesh K Nambiar santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com, nishan.nas...@gmail.com, Rajesh Nambiar rajeeshknamb...@gmail.com URL: http://wiki.smc.org.in/Payyans License: GPL Description:Payyans is a python program to convert the data written for ascii fonts in ascii format to the Unicode format. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1301912923.2924.5.camel@dLab
Re: Bug#620808: ITP: payyans -- A python utility to convert between ASCII and Unicode.
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 03:58:43PM +0530, Dhananjay wrote: An ASCII to unicode conversion utility. Package name: payyans URL: http://wiki.smc.org.in/Payyans Description:Payyans is a python program to convert the data written for ascii fonts in ascii format to the Unicode format. Uhm, but Debian already contains an ASCII-Unicode converter. It's called cat. There's also an in-place version, /bin/true. This assumes UTF-8, but other Unicode encodings are not supported in a vast majority of tools anyway, and iconv can handle them. What payyans seems to do is converting from some other encoding where for example the octet 65 (0x41) doesn't mean A but അ, 66 is ക and so on. This is definitely not ASCII; it's about as close to it as to EBCDIC. -- 1KB // Microsoft corollary to Hanlon's razor: // Never attribute to stupidity what can be // adequately explained by malice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110404122718.ga23...@angband.pl
Re: Bug#620808: ITP: payyans -- A python utility to convert between ASCII and Unicode.
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 02:27:19PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 03:58:43PM +0530, Dhananjay wrote: An ASCII to unicode conversion utility. Package name: payyans URL: http://wiki.smc.org.in/Payyans Description:Payyans is a python program to convert the data written for ascii fonts in ascii format to the Unicode format. Uhm, but Debian already contains an ASCII-Unicode converter. It's called cat. There's also an in-place version, /bin/true. This assumes UTF-8, but other Unicode encodings are not supported in a vast majority of tools anyway, and iconv can handle them. What payyans seems to do is converting from some other encoding where for example the octet 65 (0x41) doesn't mean A but അ, 66 is ക and so on. This is definitely not ASCII; it's about as close to it as to EBCDIC. And we already have the 'iconv' and 'recode' commands to do conversion between arbitrary character encodings. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110404150351.gn2...@decadent.org.uk
Re: Bug#620808: ITP: payyans -- A python utility to convert between ASCII and Unicode.
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: And we already have the 'iconv' and 'recode' commands to do conversion between arbitrary character encodings. These are not character encodings, but specific fonts. See the khmerconverter ITP for some earlier discussion on this: http://bugs.debian.org/31#33 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTinGRsv0cfe6New=ge+x2gef7fw...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Bug#620808: ITP: payyans -- A python utility to convert between ASCII and Unicode.
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 09:41:27AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: And we already have the 'iconv' and 'recode' commands to do conversion between arbitrary character encodings. These are not character encodings, but specific fonts. See the khmerconverter ITP for some earlier discussion on this: If the same issues apply here, that's fine, but the description is completely wrong. The fonts in question are not ASCII and calling them that is simply not correct. The description should clearly state what the utility does so that people who need it can find it and those looking for iconv or recode determine that it's not for them. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
