[Smc-discuss] Re: Converting to Unicode

[Suresh V Parambil]

Hi Diwakar,
   'smcconvert' program converts ML-TTKarthika<->UNICODE. smcconvert is
a part of SMC project and it is available under GNU GPL. To download,
see the download section of SMC (http://smc.sarovar.org) project.
 Questions,comments,RFCs about smcconvert, post a mail to 
 smc-discuss at lists.sarovar.org

Regards,
Suresh 

--- Diwakar <globachennai at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry if you're getting this message twice. I'm not sure if I typed
> my e-mail correctly.
> 
> I'm Diwakar, a translator with a translation agency based in Chennai.
> A client of ours asked us to convert some Malayalam text in
> ML-TTKarthika to Unicode and we used Varamozhi. The result was
> somewhat bizarre.
> 
> If you've used Varamozhi for conversion to Unicode, you'd be knowing
> that characters change on conversion. The client will be sending some
> 50 pages of text for conversion and we're clueless as to how to
> tackle this.
> 
> Do you know of any tool (Windows) with which we can directly type
> Malayalam in Unicode or a good Windows-based program that converts
> text in ML-TTKarthika to Unicode without errors?
> 
> I'd be grateful if you could give me info on this.
> 
> Regards,
> Diwakar
> 
> PS: I've got Mandrake 8.2 at home, tried to install Fedora Core-1 at
> office and failed


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