<br><font size=2><tt>Chris Fynn wrote:</tt></font>
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> While TECkit and similar utilities are primarily designed to
convert <br>
> from legacy encodings to Unicode it should be reasonably <br>
> straightforward to adapt this sort of thing to convert text encoded
<br>
> using one script block in Unicode to characters in another Unicode
block.<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>In TECkit, it is certainly the case that it was originally
intended for conversion between legacy encodings and Unicode. In order
to support conversion to complex legacy encodings (e.g. visually-ordered,
presentation-form-encoded Devanagari), the system had to allow for discrete
mapping steps. So, instead of </tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>legacy <> unicode</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>it can support</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>legacy > legacy > unicode > unicode</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>(and the reverse). So, it's possible to use it for
at least some types of text transformations within a single encoding (either
legacy or Unicode).</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Peter</tt></font>