Changeset 1870 for trunk/gsdl/mappings

Timestamp:

2001-01-29T14:54:58+13:00 (23 years ago)

Author:

sjboddie

Message:

Tidied up language support stuff.

Location:

trunk/gsdl/mappings

Files:

• README (modified) (1 diff)
• from_uc/big5.ump (added)
• from_uc/euc_jp.ump (added)
• from_uc/gbk.ump (added)
• from_uc/shiftjis.ump (added)
• from_uc/uhc.ump (modified) ( previous)
• to_uc/big5.ump (added)
• to_uc/euc_jp.ump (added)
• to_uc/gbk.ump (added)
• to_uc/shiftjis.ump (added)
• to_uc/uhc.ump (modified) ( previous)

trunk/gsdl/mappings/README

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-This directory contains mapping files for converting various character
-encodings to and from unicode. 
+This directory and its subdirectories contain .ump mapping files for
+converting various character encodings to and from unicode.
+
+To generate .ump files use a command like "makemapfile.pl -encoding
+encodingname -mapfile textmapfile" where encodingname becomes the filename
+of the two new .ump files and textmapfile is a plain text file containing a
+tab separated list of the form:
+0x8167        0x201C
+where the first column is the hexadecimal value of the encoded character
+and the second is the hexadecimal value of it's unicode equivalent.
+
+
+
+The following .ump files were generated from their corresponding Microsoft
+codepages. These codepages do, in some cases, differ very slightly from the
+standards they were based on but we've used them anyway as they're so
+extensively used on the web.
+
+* gbk.ump: Simplified Chinese - generated from Microsoft's codepage 936
+* shiftjis.ump: Japanese - generated from Microsoft's codepage 932
+* uhc.ump: UHC Korean - generated from Microsoft's codepage 949
+* big5.ump: Traditional Chinese - generated from Microsoft's codepage 950