Tibetan Unicode Scripts

This repository contains some random Tibetan Encoding translation scripts.

I came across difficulties with old documents with Tibetan fonts encoded in old 8-bit hacky non-standard encodings (Dedris, Esama, LTibetan, etc.), and none of the tools available for Unicode conversion were doing their job. So I decided to make the conversion tables and make them available to everyone, which is the point of this repository.

All this is really hacky and will certainly need to be reworked if you want to use it. Feel free to write new scripts or correct these ones and send your fixes! They are mainly correspondance tables, so they should be very straightforward to adapt if you know the script language for your tool.

There is absolutely NO WARRANTY that it will work, and you have to read the output carefully! It should work quite well for LTibetan, Esama (not b or c due to strange behaviour of InDesign) and (E)Dedris.

I am not going to use them anymore, so feel free also to fork the repo and maintain it yourself.

The scripts are distributed under the very free CC0 license (see the scripts headers).

There are currently two scripts:

All fonts (except LTibetan) to Unicode for AdobeIndesign

This is an InDesign jsx script that you can save to:

• Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Adobe\InDesign\<version>\<username>\Scripts\Scripts Panel\
• Windows Vista: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\InDesign\<version>\<locale>\Scripts\Scripts Panel\
• Mac OS: /Users/<username>/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/<version>/<locale>/Scripts/Scripts Panel

where <username> is your user name, and <locale> and <version> should be relatively obvious.

Once the script is in the folder, it appears on the Scripts panel inside InDesign. To display the panel, choose Window -> Utilities -> Scripts. Double-click the script to convert from any old encoding to Unicode. You can set the font and size by editing the script (it is in the first lines).

Not that it auomatically sets the Paragraph Builder to World-Ready Composer.

LTibetan to Unicode for LibreOffice

This is a python script that you can save to (under Linux) /.config/libreoffice//user/Scripts/python/LtibtoUni.py where <home> is your home directory and <version> your LibreOffice version directory (there should be only one). Adapting to Windows or MacOSX directories should be relatively easy.

Once you have saved it, you can convert files with LTibetan font into Unicode.