Re: Help me choose a name for a Beta Code conversion module

2012-12-09 Thread Dimitrios - Georgios Kontopoulos
Hi Markus, Sure, I appreciate all the help I can get, even more when it comes from someone who has more experience than me in that domain. I released the module on CPAN as Encode::BetaCode and its source code is also available on GitHub at https://github.com/dgkontopoulos/Encode-BetaCode. Regards

Re: Help me choose a name for a Beta Code conversion module

2012-12-09 Thread Markus Heller
Hi Aldo, I did not follow this thread, but just now "BetaCode" caught my attention. Are you talking about the BetaCode that was used in the Packard Humanities Institute Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum corpora? Back in year 2000 I wrote a BetaCode analyzer for TLG

Re: Help me choose a name for a Beta Code conversion module

2012-12-09 Thread Markus Heller
Hi guys, OK, I see, I have also been dealing with BetaCode, already 12 years ago: http://www.betacode2web.de/download.html The BetaCode is kind of an encoding for Text. It is a way to annotate metadata by using a 7 bit encoding for normal text, and the 8th bit as a signal to switch to what wou

Re: Help me choose a name for a Beta Code conversion module

2012-12-07 Thread Dimitrios - Georgios Kontopoulos
Ok, the verdict is clear enough. I'll put it in Encode::BetaCode. Thank you everyone for the advice! -Dimitrios

Re: Help me choose a name for a Beta Code conversion module

2012-12-07 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 07:15:56AM +0200, Dimitrios - Georgios Kontopoulos wrote: > This is the first time I'm writing a Perl module and I would appreciate > some advice on naming it. > > This module will perform conversion from Beta Code characters to > Unicode. As the relevant wikipedia articl

Re: Help me choose a name for a Beta Code conversion module

2012-12-07 Thread Aldo Calpini
On Wed, December 5, 2012 6:17 pm, Dimitrios - Georgios Kontopoulos wrote: > I wasn't able to find any such module at the CPAN. The PAUSE naming > guidelines seem to suggest that something like Lingua::BetaCode would be a > good choice, but I'll wait for your advice. > > Any ideas? I think Text::B