Re: Latin w/ diacritics (was Re: benefits of unicode)

[Peter_Constable]

>> Whether the PUA or custom code pages are used, some kind of
>> software which converts to and from Unicode would be
>> helpful to assure that users of older hardware can continue
>> to communicate with the "modern" world.

[snip]

>since i'm not a programmer, I'm not able to throw together such a utility.
I've
>seen a number of utilities that allow you to convert between unicode and a
>range of defined character sets and encodings, but I haven't found a
utility
>that does this and that would allow you to easily construct custom mapping
>tables to use with it as well.
>
>If anyone is aware of such a tool, I'd be interested in hearing about it.

We have a beta of such a tool, but are still deliberating how to deal with
some of the more difficult to deal with 8-bit encodings, particularly ones
used for Indic scripts.



- Peter


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Peter Constable

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