On 16/12/2002 22:02:36 "Magda Danish (Unicode)" wrote: >> I have a data in devanagri true type font i want to convert >> this data into mangal unicode.
Sunil, For Windows or Mac use: If you want to convert data from one encoding to Unicode, one option is to look at the free TECkit package. There are many non-Unicode encodings of Devanagari, so I'm unable to guess how your data is currently encoded. TECkit is table-driven, i.e., you find or prepare a description of the mapping between your encoding and Unicode, and then TECkit uses that description to convert data. You may even be able to find a mapping description already prepared as TECkit can use the XML mapping definitions from ICU (see http://oss.software.ibm.com/cvs/icu/charset/data/xml/) For more information about TECkit or to download it, see http://www.sil.org/nrsi/teckit/ Depending on the characteristics of your encoding and your desire to do a bit of programming, you may also be able to incorporate the ICU (International Components for Unicode) library into your own program to do the conversion you need. See http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/icu/project/ for more information. NB: One of the complexities you may run into, and which will limit your options, is that your encoding may store text in a different order than Unicode requires. If this is the case, TECkit can do the rearrangement for you but I'm not sure ICU will easily do that. Certainly the current standard for XML-based descriptions of encoding mappings as given in Unicode Technical Report 22 (see http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr22/ ) cannot express such mappings. Bob
