Dear unicoder:
I am looking for open source tool (C / C++ / Perl or Java) to convert
between (UTF-8/UTF-16 or ISCII) and differnt Indict font encoding.
Please let me know if you know anything available.
Language:
C,
C++,
Perl, or
Java
Convert from A to / from B where
A mean
UTF-8
UTF-16, or
ISCII
B mean
font encoding of Nadunia font
font encoding of Shusha font
font encoding of DV-Suresh font
font encoding of DV-Yogesh font
font encoding of Mangal font (that is just OpenType, is it ?)
Also conversion between
UTF-16 and ISCII
If there are no CODE available, information (mapping table, algorithm,
documentation) are also helpful.
Below is the information I already know. If you know anything more than
that, please let me know. Or if you know more detail about those, please
also let me know:
1. I know Eric Mader at IBM is working on a layout engine which he
reverse enginieer some of the Indic font encoding.
2. There are some very limited information about INSFOC font from page
76-77 at http://tdil.mit.gov.in/tdiljan2002.pdf
3. Pango probably have some table to handle these fonts. Sun help us
(mozilla) to put a small part of pango code into mozilla to handle
hindi in
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/intl/ctl/src/hindiShaper/dvng-x.c
The whole pango source at
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0/pango-1.0.5.tar.gz
They have some shapping engine for indic fonts. But I am not sure that
will to revers mapping from font code back to iscii
4. t http://tdil.mit.gov.in/download/menu.htm#INDIX you may have some
open soruce code there deal with the conversion
5. about Nadunia
look at
http://www.xfree86.org/archives/i18n/1999-Nov/0032.shtml
http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/nai2ucs.pl
<http://crl.nmsu.edu/%7Emleisher/nai2ucs.pl>
http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/naicode.html
Mark Leisher. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/
<mailto:mleisher@;crl.nmsu.edu?subject=Re:%20Updated%20Naidunia%20conversion%20script&[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
seems pretty knowledgable about this issue.
6. Mangal- Mangal is just a OpenType font, right? should the page
encoded in UTF-8 ?
