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<p>Greetings,</p>
<p>I thought I would respond to Dominik's emails (plural) with one
email, I hope that is easier to understand.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2021-11-03 12:20 p.m., Dominik
Wujastyk wrote:<br>
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class="gmail_default">The documentation for TEC mapping files
mentions the Mapping Editor. But a) I can't find it for Linux,
and b) it "does not handle mapping descriptions written as
Unicode text; it is strictly an 8-bit editing environment."
Is there any chance that these limitations, especially the
latter, might be addressed in future? Especially for Asian
languages that have widely-used transliteration schemes and
multiple alphabets (like Sanskrit), TECket mapping has moved
way beyond its original purpose of mapping legacy 8-bit
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<p>I am curious what version of TECkit and/or where you are reading
the TECkit documentation (from the download package, or installed
in Ubuntu, etc). A few years ago, in the documentation, I added
the following note above the text you mention</p>
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The mapping editor described below has been superseded by the
SILConverters package, and possibly the LibreOffice Linguistic
Tools
add-on, both linked to at the end of this document. In
addition, the
source code for the mapping editor is lost. The old mapping
editor
binary (from version 2.5.1 in 2006) only ran on Windows, and
does not
run well on modern versions on Windows (7 and 10). As a
result, this
binary is no longer distributed.</p>
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<p>The links are</p>
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<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://software.sil.org/silconverters">https://software.sil.org/silconverters</a></li>
<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://software.sil.org/oolt">https://software.sil.org/oolt</a></li>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2021-11-03 6:22 p.m., Dominik
Wujastyk wrote:<br>
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ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks, that's a good idea.
And it's not that hard, really, even just with vi. I was only
asking in case there was a fancy gui thing out there :-)<br>
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<p>There is a nice GUI for editing TECkit maps in the SIL Converters
package. It s Windows. It provides side panels that can show the
legacy (8-bit) and Unicode fonts that you are mapping between, if
you double click on a character then the character name or
codepoint is inserted into the map file.<br>
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<p>Since I maintain TECkit, I would be happy to create a 'contrib'
directory in the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/silnrsi/teckit">source repo</a> for
items such as the vi syntax file that BPJ mentioned if that would
be useful to people.</p>
<p>Bobby<br>
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<div class="moz-signature">Bobby de Vos<br>
<em><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bobby_devos@sil.org">bobby_devos@sil.org</a></em><br>
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