Tools for acquiring Guaraní text.

Tools for acquiring Guaraní text

Guaraní Encodings

There appear to be three encodings of Guaraní in use. One for Linux, one related to (La)TeX, and one that seems to be more common on Windows. Below are links to tables that describe the mapping of these three encodings to Unicode. The table files contain information describing the source documentation was found for each encoding.

Times Guaraní Font

For text that uses the Times Guaraní encoding, the font is available here as timesg.TTF.

Typing Guaraní text on Windows 98/NT/2K/XP.

We have an experimental Guaraní keyboard available (created with Keyman) in a self-installing package that supports input of Guaraní text encoded in Unicode. This keyboard is designed to work with Microsoft's Latin American keyboard. Here is a table of the key strokes needed to insert the different characters on the Latin American keyboard.

Name Keystrokes Inserted Character

Tilde-e AltGr + e U+1EBD ẽ

Tilde-E AltGr + E U+1EBC Ẽ

Tilde-g AltGr g U+0067 U+0303 g̃

Tilde-G AltGr G U+0047 U+0303 G̃

Tilde-i AltGr + i U+0129 ĩ

Tilde-I AltGr + I U+0128 Ĩ

Tilde-u AltGr + u U+0169 ũ

Tilde-U AltGr + U U+0168 Ũ

Tilde-y AltGr + y U+1EF9 ỹ

Tilde-Y AltGr + Y U+1EF8 Ỹ

Tilde AltGr + AltGr + U+007E ~

Name	Keystrokes	Inserted	Character
Tilde-e	AltGr + e	U+1EBD	ẽ
Tilde-E	AltGr + E	U+1EBC	Ẽ
Tilde-g	AltGr g	U+0067 U+0303	g̃
Tilde-G	AltGr G	U+0047 U+0303	G̃
Tilde-i	AltGr + i	U+0129	ĩ
Tilde-I	AltGr + I	U+0128	Ĩ
Tilde-u	AltGr + u	U+0169	ũ
Tilde-U	AltGr + U	U+0168	Ũ
Tilde-y	AltGr + y	U+1EF9	ỹ
Tilde-Y	AltGr + Y	U+1EF8	Ỹ
Tilde	AltGr + AltGr +	U+007E	~

During installation of this package, the user will be asked if they want to install a Standard or Home Edition version of Keyman. If the Standard Keyman is installed, this keyboard will only work for 30 days after installation, but if the Home Edition Keyman is installed, the keyboard will work indefinitely. The Home Edition only allows 2 keyboards to be installed at one time.

http://crl.nmsu.edu/say/tools/unigua.exe

Converting Guaraní text to Unicode - gn2utf8

Source code (C) and binaries are available for this conversion program.

The command line is: gn2utf8 [-l|-t|-w] [-o output_file] [input_file1 input_file2....]

-l convert from Linux Guaraní to UTF-8.

-t convert from TimesG Guaraní to UTF-8.

-w convert from (La)TeX Guaraní to UTF-8.

-o output_file specify an output file other than stdout

input_file1... one or more files to convert from other encodings into UTF-8.
If no input files are provided, input is expected from stdin

Converting UTF-8 Guaraní text back to another encoding - utf8togn

Source code (Perl and C) and binaries are available for this conversion program.

-l	convert from UTF-8 to Linux Guaraní.
-t	convert from UTF-8 to TimesG Guaraní.
-w	convert from UTF-8 to (La)TeX Guaraní.
input_file1...	one or more files to convert from UTF-8 int other encodings. If no input files are provided, input is expected from `stdin`

-l	convert from Linux Guaraní to UTF-8.
-t	convert from TimesG Guaraní to UTF-8.
-w	convert from (La)TeX Guaraní to UTF-8.
-o output_file	specify an output file other than `stdout`
input_file1...	one or more files to convert from other encodings into UTF-8. If no input files are provided, input is expected from `stdin`