On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 12:24:05AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Daniel Glassey (2015-11-13 23:54:38) > > Package name : teckit > > > Description: > > > TECkit provides a generic library and tools for converting data to and > > from Unicode and also from one Unicode encoding to another. > > It also includes a compiler for a description language that allows for > > birectional conversion description (the same description is used for > > conversion to and from Unicode, for example). > > How is this different from recode?
Hi Jonas, My understanding is that teckit is a way to (relatively) easily define a mapping for legacy custom encodings to Unicode. It is particularly useful for converting text documents using legacy non-Unicode fonts which use a font specific encoding to Unicode. It is possible to add custom character sets to recode but afaict that is a programmer level thing whereas teckit mappings are easier for the font people. Regards, Daniel
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