Re: [Indlinux-group] Weird Devnagari encoding

[G K. <ind...@gm...>]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
<ra...@li...> wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 Oct 2012, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote:
>> On Wednesday 17 Oct 2012, Ravishankar Shrivastava (रवि-रतलामी) wrote:
>> > On 10/17/2012 6:01 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > I have a spreadsheet made out of data captured in the field that
>> > > contains what is purported to be Devnagari, but in some weird
>> > > encoding.
>> > >
>> > > Sample:
>> > >> loth firk tkSnk eh.kk] y{e.k firk tkSnk eh.kk] /kUuk firk oDlh
>> > >> eh.kk] fuoklh & nkekrkykc
>> >
>> > The data is in most popular old 8bit font - Krutidev010 Hindi.
>> > It can be converted to unicode through converters like this -
>> >
>> > सवजी पिता जौदा मीणा, लक्ष्‍मण पिता जौदा मीणा, धन्‍ना पिता वक्‍सी
>> > मीणा,
>> >
>> > निवासी - दामातालाब
>> >
>> >
>> > Then Unicode Hindi can easily be converted to Phonetic-Roman.
>> >
>> >
>> > You can find one such converter (Krutidev>Unicode) online here:
>> > http://raviratlami.blogspot.com/2010/10/blog-post_22.html
>>
>> Thanks for the info about Krutidev010.  I need to do bulk conversion
>> of multiple spreadsheets, so will look for a command-line FOSS tool
>> to do this.  Well, even an algorithm is fine -- I can create a tool
>> around it. Any pointers appreciated.
>
> Ah, http://shantiniketanvidyapeeth.com/News/UniKrutidev+Converter.htm
> has the complete encoder/decoder in JS.  No copyright or licence, so I'm
> going to assume it's public domain and adapt into a GPL Perl script.
>
> Seems to be straight translation with some exceptions handled through
> code.
>

This could be of help, basically a web proxy gateway to convert legacy
font encoded sites to unicode and display them.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/unigateway/
conversion codes (in PHP) are here.
http://unigateway.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/unigateway/trunk/unigateway/Encoder/fonts/

Karunakar