GLUE Transcoders now Available in beta

Date:     Tue, 27 Jul 1999 04:57:28 +0800
From:     Rick Jelliffe <ricko@allette.com.au>
To:       xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
Subject:  ANN: GLUE Transcoders now available in beta

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@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Chinese XML Now! Project
Academia Sinica Computing Centre

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