On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you wish to do it on the fly in XeTeX,  you can write a TECkit map.

I do have a map now. Can someone tell me how to do the conversion "on
the fly" in XeLaTeX? I did see the command line option
"-translate-file=TCXNAME", but for that it says "(ignored)".

Dan


On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/10/17 Daniel Greenhoe <dgreen...@gmail.com>:
>> I know that this is not really the right mailing list for this
>> question, but I have so far not found the answer by any other means
>> ...
>>
>> I would like to find or write some a utility that would take an
>> unicode encoded file and map Chinese traditional characters to
>> simplified, while leaving all other code points (such  as those in the
>> Latin and IPA code spaces) untouched. For example, the traditional
>> character for horse (馬) is at unicode U+99AC, the simplified one (马)
>> is at unicode U+9A6C, and the Latin character for "A" is at U+0041. So
>> I want a utility that would change the 99AC to 9A6C, but leave the
>> 0041 unchanged.
>>
> If it is really that simple 1:1 mapping, you can just use tr, it does
> exactly that if you supply the map. If you wish to do it on the fly in
> XeTeX, you can write a TECkit map. Having the TECkit map you can also
> run txtconv from the command line.
>
>> Does anyone know of such a utility? Does anyone know of any data base
>> with a traditional to simplified character mapping such that I could
>> maybe write the utility myself?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance,
>> Dan
>>
>>
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