ANN: GLUE Transcoders now available in beta

[Rick Jelliffe]

GLUE Loses User Encodings!

GLUE is a library of data and utilities to simplify the task of creating
transcoder software, and to allow the trial of new functionality for
Chinese
documents.

The website is now up at http://www.ascc.net/xml/en/utf-8/glue.html
as part of the Chinese XML Now! project at Academia Sinica Computing
Centre http://www.ascc.net/xml/

Transcoding is specified using XML. C Transcoders are generated using
XSL
stylesheets. Using XML allows more than just mapping tables to be
specified:
multi-byte encoding algorithms may be specified, and variant character
sets
may be specified. The current library specifies 30 different characters
sets: including Big5. (Transcoders for other fixed 8-bit encodings can
be
trivially generated from the tables at unicode.org.  ISO2022 modal
(escaped)
encodings are not supported currently.)

XSL stylesheets have been made to create transcoders to utf-8 for these
character encodings. A stylesheet to create transcoders from UTF-8 is
also
in preparation. The transcoders are available individually, and in a
version
of iconv (a.k.a. tcs), implemented as a UNIX shell script.

The transcoders will be enhanced soon to handle various kinds of numeric
character reference delimiting and undelimiting. The code is Open
Source.
Note: this preview release is beta quality.

Rick Jelliffe
ricko at gate.sinica.edu.tw
Chinese XML Now! Project
Academia Sinica Computing Centre


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