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Universal Tibetan Font Converter
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Version 2.0
Release date: 2008
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Project state: beta
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Credits
	Author: Tashi Tsering
	Assistant: Nyima Droma
	Supported by: Trace Foundation
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Project description

The Universal Tibetan Font Converter was created by Tashi Tsering with funding from Trace Foundation. The objective of the development is to provide the community a tool for converting files between different Tibetan encoding schemes with different file formats. The converter also can translate Tibetan script with different encodings to variant Wylie transliterations, and vice versa.

The converter covers 17 different Tibetan encoding schemes including 4 Tibetan transliteration schemes (ACIP, ALA-LC, THL Wylie, Wylie), Tibetan Unicode, and other 12 legacy Tibetan fonts including:

*Sambhota 1.0 (Sama)
*Sambhota 2.0 (Dedris)
*Bandrida
*Tongyuan
*Beida Founder
*Huanguang
*LTibetan
*Jamyang
*TCRC Bod-Yig
*Tibetan Machine
*Tibetan Machine Web
*National Standard Extended

The converter also covers four common file formats including txt, Unicode txt, rich text file format (RTF) and HTML web page. You can convert file between arbitrary two encoding schemes from 16 ones mentioned above with certain file formats.

The converter has some bugs and additional information on the file format supported can be found at http://www.trace.org/utfc. Any improvement of the application would be very much appreciated.
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Installation instructions

gcc Converter.c

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Additional Notes

You can find an online version of the application at http://www.trace.org/utfc

You can download a standalone version from: http://www.yalasoo.com/English/docs/yalasoo_en_utfc.html

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License

The application has been licensed GPL v3, you can find the full license in the LICENSE.txt file.