I have written a complete system for transcoding between various Coptic legacy encodings. It includes fonts of my own design, fonts by others (in the public domain), and a shell script for actually doing the transcoding job.
An example: a hypothetical encoding A maps Coptic letter gamma to the Latin letters G and g, and another hypothetical encoding B maps it to the Latin letters J and j. My shell script uses UNIX tr to transcode the octal codes for G and g to the octal codes for J and j, respectively.
The Linux/UNIX code works quite well on Mac and Linux, but I would like to port this to Windows. Word macros exist, but I would prefer something fast, native, and something that reduces reliance on things like Microsoft Office.
Knowledge of the Greek alphabet is an asset, but not required; what is required is an understanding of the Win32 batch language with decision trees, and/or knowledge of a standard programming language (C would be ideal, but Fortran is okay in a pinch). I can offer lots of help, and this is a small project. The project uses a Hg repository; if this is not convenient, I can see about porting the code somewhere else (SubVersioN maybe).
I have looked trough your sourcecode and i can probably port that to Java in a few days. That would run on most platforms. I could use C/C++ to but that would take more time, and it would have to be compiled for multiple platforms.
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Hello, world!
I have written a complete system for transcoding between various Coptic legacy encodings. It includes fonts of my own design, fonts by others (in the public domain), and a shell script for actually doing the transcoding job.
An example: a hypothetical encoding A maps Coptic letter gamma to the Latin letters G and g, and another hypothetical encoding B maps it to the Latin letters J and j. My shell script uses UNIX tr to transcode the octal codes for G and g to the octal codes for J and j, respectively.
The Linux/UNIX code works quite well on Mac and Linux, but I would like to port this to Windows. Word macros exist, but I would prefer something fast, native, and something that reduces reliance on things like Microsoft Office.
Knowledge of the Greek alphabet is an asset, but not required; what is required is an understanding of the Win32 batch language with decision trees, and/or knowledge of a standard programming language (C would be ideal, but Fortran is okay in a pinch). I can offer lots of help, and this is a small project. The project uses a Hg repository; if this is not convenient, I can see about porting the code somewhere else (SubVersioN maybe).
E-mail me at n.theodore.matavka.files@gmail.com
The project is at https://sourceforge.net/p/coptenc.
Best regards,
Ted.
Last edit: Ted Matavka 2014-10-31
I have looked trough your sourcecode and i can probably port that to Java in a few days. That would run on most platforms. I could use C/C++ to but that would take more time, and it would have to be compiled for multiple platforms.