TR: Character Encoding Translator

TR GUI
TR “translates” or remaps text from one encoding vector to another. The main motivation to create this tool was to convert a large body of ASCII-based foreign-language texts to Unicode.

Included Alphabets
TR comes with converters to/from the following encodings.
  • Arafi (8-bit encoding based on the Arafi font used in Lebanon Bible Society)
  • Ardahan (8-bit PC encoding based on Ardahan family of fonts)
  • ArmSCII-7 (7-bit Armenian encoding, see http://www.freenet.am/armscii/)
  • ArmSCII-8 (8-bit PC Armenian encoding, see http://www.freenet.am/armscii/)
  • ArmSCII-8a (8-bit Mac Armenian encoding, see http://www.freenet.am/armscii/)
  • Eznik (8-bit PC encoding based on Eznik family of fonts)
  • Haicanus (8-bit PC encoding based on Haicanus family of fonts)
  • LFC (8-bit Mac encoding based on Lines Fonts & Circles fonts used by St. Nersess Seminary)
  • LFC NeXT (A version of the LFC fonts for the NeXT computer)
  • LFC New (An update by LFC that changed the location of the ծ and ռ characters)
  • Latin (A Latin encoding)
  • Laser Armenian (8-bit Mac encoding based on Laser Armenian family of fonts from Linguists' Software)
  • Mac Armenian (8-bit Mac encoding based on Mac Armenian family of fonts from Linguists' Software)
  • Olympia7 (8-bit PC encoding based on the Olympia7 typewriter keyboard)
  • Unicode (Unicode 2.1 Armenian Codepage)

How to Use

Revision History

Download: TR (320 KB Mac OS X disk image)