[XeTeX] Devanagari ASCII to Unicode mapping

Lorna Evans lorna_evans at sil.org
Wed Feb 21 23:34:51 CET 2018


I think this is a TECkit converter for the Preeti font:

https://github.com/silnrsi/wsresources/tree/master/scripts/Deva/legacy/sag-preeti/mappings

Lorna


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Devanagari ASCII to Unicode mapping
From: ShreeDevi Kumar <shreeshrii at gmail.com>
To: XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion. <xetex at tug.org>
Date: 2/17/2018 11:11 AM
> Please see
>
> view-source:http://hindi-fonts.com/tools/Preeti-to-Unicode-Converter
>
> There is no direct mapping, butarray_one has the ASCII codes for 
> Preeti, while array_two has the corresponding unicode.
>
> ShreeDevi
> ____________________________________________________________
> भजन - कीर्तन - आरती @ http://bhajans.ramparivar.com
>
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 10:32 PM, ShreeDevi Kumar 
> <shreeshrii at gmail.com <mailto:shreeshrii at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     > What I think I am looking for is something that would map a document
>     typeset using something like the Devanagari Preeti font
>     (https://fonts2u.com/preeti.font
>     <https://fonts2u.com/preeti.font>), which seems to have the Devanagari
>     glyphs encoded in the range 0x00-0x7F, to something like the
>     Devanagari unicode font Mukta
>     (https://ektype.in/scripts/devanagari/mukta.html
>     <https://ektype.in/scripts/devanagari/mukta.html>) in the range
>     0x0900-0x097F.
>
>     Please try http://www.ashesh.com.np/preeti-unicode/
>     <http://www.ashesh.com.np/preeti-unicode/>
>
>     Also see
>
>     https://github.com/Shuvayatra/preeti
>     <https://github.com/Shuvayatra/preeti>
>
>     ShreeDevi
>     ____________________________________________________________
>     भजन - कीर्तन - आरती @ http://bhajans.ramparivar.com
>
>     On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 10:27 PM, Mike Maxwell
>     <maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu <mailto:maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu>> wrote:
>
>         On 2/17/2018 11:08 AM, Daniel Greenhoe wrote:
>
>             Does anyone know where I can find an ASCII to Unicode
>             mapping for Devanagari?
>
>             For example, it seems that the Devanagari glyph "ब" is
>             encoded as
>             0x61 (hex) in ASCII (lower case 'a' for the Latin
>             alphabet), but is
>             0x092C in the Unicode standard:
>             http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0900.pdf
>             <http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0900.pdf>
>
>             So what I am asking for is a map (or table) that maps
>             0x00-0x7F in
>             Devanagari ASCII to 0x0900-0x097F in Unicode.
>
>
>         In addition to the ASCII-to-Devanagari transcription system
>         that Philip Taylor mentioned, you may be interested in the
>         ISCII encoding for Brahmi-derived writing systems, including
>         Devanagari:
>
>         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Script_Code_for_Information_Interchange
>         <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Script_Code_for_Information_Interchange>
>
>         This is _not_ an ASCII-to-Devanagari encoding, rather it
>         leaves the ASCII range intact, and encodes Devanagari (etc.)
>         in the range 128 (actually, 161)-255.  It was afaik never
>         widely used, but there were (and probably still are) fonts for
>         it.  I don't imagine those fonts would be terribly high
>         quality by today's standards, e.g. I'd be surprised if they
>         handled conjunct characters.
>
>         FWIW, there was a similar encoding called TSCII for Tamil.
>
>         iconv can be used to map TSCII to other encodings, but for
>         some reason it doesn't seem to have ISCII in its reportoire
>         (it does include VISCII, but that's a legacy Vietnamese encoding).
>         -- 
>            Mike Maxwell
>            "My definition of an interesting universe is
>            one that has the capacity to study itself."
>                  --Stephen Eastmond
>
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