On Wednesday 17 Oct 2012, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote:
> 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.
Ah, http://shantiniketanvidyapeeth.com/News/UniKrutidev+Converter.htm
has the complete encoder/decoder in JS. No copyright or licence, so I'm
going to assume it's public domain and adapt into a GPL Perl script.
Seems to be straight translation with some exceptions handled through
code.
Regards,
-- Raj
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