On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 02:02:47AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Daniel Glassey (2015-11-14 01:01:19) > > On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 12:24:05AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Quoting Daniel Glassey (2015-11-13 23:54:38) > > > > Package name : teckit > > > > > > > Description: > > > > > > > TECkit provides a generic library and tools for converting data to and > > > > from Unicode and also from one Unicode encoding to another. > > > > It also includes a compiler for a description language that allows for > > > > birectional conversion description (the same description is used for > > > > conversion to and from Unicode, for example). > > > > > > How is this different from recode? > > > My understanding is that teckit is a way to (relatively) easily define > > a mapping for legacy custom encodings to Unicode. It is particularly > > useful for converting text documents using legacy non-Unicode fonts > > which use a font specific encoding to Unicode. > > > > It is possible to add custom character sets to recode but afaict that > > is a programmer level thing whereas teckit mappings are easier for the > > font people. > > Thanks for those details. > > Seems appropriate to me to include in long description.
Thanks Jonas. How do you think this looks as a long description?: Description: Encoding conversion tools for plain text files TECkit is a toolkit for encoding conversions. It offers a simple format for describing the mapping between legacy 8-bit encodings and Unicode, and a set of utilities based on such descriptions for converting text between 8-bit and Unicode encodings. . It also includes a compiler for the mapping description language that allows for bidirectional conversion description (i.e. the same description is used for conversion to and from Unicode). Regards, Daniel
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