--- Forwarded Message from David Herren <[log in to unmask]> --- >To: LLTI <[log in to unmask]> >From: David Herren <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: shift-JIS to Big5 conversion >Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:05:25 -0400 I've already lost the original query, but I forwarded the question to Robert Smitheram, an expert on such things. Here was his reply: >> I have a txt file encoded in shift-jis. A user wants to reencode >> the file >> into a Chinese encoding, say Big5, so that he can use Clavis >> Sinica or >> some other glossing package to read and gloss the characters. >> > > Hi, David, > > If you could post the answer, direct the person to this website: > > http://www.elfdata.com/encodingmaster/ > > Where they can download an application for either the Mac OSX or > Windows that will do the required conversion... it does batch job > of files as well... really a cool app... There might be a problem > in that some Kanji are not a part of the Big5 standard as these are > Japanese variants of Chinese characters.. if the conversion was to > Unicode this would not be an issue, but there are areas where Shift- > jis and Big5 do not overlap... I would strongly recommend that all > users upgrade to Unicode for storing data; if the app doesn't > support it, find one that does and inform the software provider of > this important need.... With Unicode, you can pile in all kinds of > CJK data and they will all happily play together... > > R. > -- > Robert H. Smitheram > Santa Barbara, CA > [log in to unmask] /david -- david herren - shoreham, vt us na terra solsys orionarm "This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating." - George W. Bush, as quoted by the New York Daily News, April 23rd, 2002 http://www.bushorchimp.com/ *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning, and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://consortium.dartmouth.edu). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************