[XeTeX] Devanagari ASCII to Unicode mapping

[ShreeDevi Kumar]

Please see

view-source:http://hindi-fonts.com/tools/Preeti-to-Unicode-Converter

There is no direct mapping, but  array_one has the ASCII codes for Preeti,
while array_two has the corresponding unicode.

ShreeDevi
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On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 10:32 PM, ShreeDevi Kumar <shreeshrii at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > What I think I am looking for is something that would map a document
> typeset using something like the Devanagari Preeti font
> (https://fonts2u.com/preeti.font), which seems to have the Devanagari
> glyphs encoded in the range 0x00-0x7F, to something like the
> Devanagari unicode font Mukta
> (https://ektype.in/scripts/devanagari/mukta.html) in the range
> 0x0900-0x097F.
>
> Please try http://www.ashesh.com.np/preeti-unicode/
>
> Also see
>
> https://github.com/Shuvayatra/preeti
>
> ShreeDevi
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>
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 10:27 PM, Mike Maxwell <maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2/17/2018 11:08 AM, Daniel Greenhoe wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know where I can find an ASCII to Unicode mapping for
>>> Devanagari?
>>>
>>> For example, it seems that the Devanagari  glyph "ब" is encoded as
>>> 0x61 (hex) in ASCII (lower case 'a' for the Latin alphabet), but is
>>> 0x092C in the Unicode standard:
>>>    http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0900.pdf
>>>
>>> So what I am asking for is a map (or table) that maps 0x00-0x7F in
>>> Devanagari ASCII to 0x0900-0x097F in Unicode.
>>>
>>
>> In addition to the ASCII-to-Devanagari transcription system that Philip
>> Taylor mentioned, you may be interested in the ISCII encoding for
>> Brahmi-derived writing systems, including Devanagari:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Script_Code_for_Informa
>> tion_Interchange
>>
>> This is _not_ an ASCII-to-Devanagari encoding, rather it leaves the ASCII
>> range intact, and encodes Devanagari (etc.) in the range 128 (actually,
>> 161)-255.  It was afaik never widely used, but there were (and probably
>> still are) fonts for it.  I don't imagine those fonts would be terribly
>> high quality by today's standards, e.g. I'd be surprised if they handled
>> conjunct characters.
>>
>> FWIW, there was a similar encoding called TSCII for Tamil.
>>
>> iconv can be used to map TSCII to other encodings, but for some reason it
>> doesn't seem to have ISCII in its reportoire (it does include VISCII, but
>> that's a legacy Vietnamese encoding).
>> --
>>    Mike Maxwell
>>    "My definition of an interesting universe is
>>    one that has the capacity to study itself."
>>          --Stephen Eastmond
>>
>>
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