From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Thu Jun 20 01:38:57 1996 Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 19:09:15 +0000 From: "Jean Ve'ronis" Subject: Free Soft: MtRecode - Character conversion program . *** ANNOUNCING FREE SOFTWARE ALPHA RELEASE *** MtRecode - Character conversion program MtRecode is a program for translation between various character sets, developed in the framework of the MULTEXT project. It has some of the functionality of the GNU `recode' tool, but it is based on different principles and is oriented towards SGML text manipulation. ISO 10646 is used internally as a pivot in the character translation process. When exact translation into a character is not possible, MtRecode can use SGML entities as a fallback. Conversely, MtRecode understands SGML entities in the input and can recode them into characters of the target character sets, if they exist. MtRecode is completely customizable: the user can add new character sets and/or entities by providing tables that map characters and entities to ISO 10646. C source code for UN*X platforms and documentation can be freely downloaded for non-commercial, non-military use (see our user agreement) from: http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/projects/multext/MtRecode/ Note that MtRecode is an alpha version with (probable) bugs and limitations. It is being distributed "as is" in order to solicit feedback. We invite the user community to send comments and advice, provide additional character tables, etc. Jean Ve'ronis Multext project Coordinator_____________________veronis@univ-aix.fr