Mark Leisher's Naidunia Devanagari converter

[Jaap Pranger]

Forwarded message from Mark Leisher,
of possible interest to Indology list members.
Mr Leisher is not member of this list.



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From: Mark Leisher <mleisher at crl.nmsu.edu>
To: Unicode List <unicode at unicode.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 10:19:11 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Naidunia Devanagari converter and BDF font available

I have put together a Perl script to convert Naidunia font-encoded Devanagari
text to UCS2 (big-endian, with BOM).  This is the first version, so please let
me know if you find problems with it or make improvements.

  http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/nai.html

or

  ftp://crl.nmsu.edu/CLR/multiling/unicode/nai2ucs.pl

An 18pt BDF font with most of the glyphs needed for basic Unicode Devanagari
text (half-consonants and most common ligatures) is available at:

  http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/devnag.html

or

  ftp://crl.nmsu.edu/CLR/multiling/unicode/fonts/devnag18.bdf.gz
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Mark Leisher
Computing Research Lab                  ... but as they say,
New Mexico State University   "I like to put the 'punk' back in punctual."
Box 30001, Dept. 3CRL           -- Hurl Everstone, Dirt Rag #70 Interview
Las Cruces, NM  88003

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Furthermore, according to Mr Leisher:

The script should run with no problems on Windows and Mac as well,
as long as a Perl interpreter has been installed:

  http://www.perl.com/pace/pub/perldocs/latest.html

The important thing is the mapping table and the three conversion rules,
which can be easily reconstructed in another programming language.

--
JP
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