ISCII to Unicode conversion

seanp has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear monks, I am looking for the fastest and easiest way to convert a string in ISCII (Indian Script Code for Information Interchange) into Unicode. I am particularly interested in the Devanagari script. There should be a module, right? Thanks!

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Re: ISCII to Unicode conversion by kyle (Abbot) on May 21, 2007 at 21:17 UTC
A quick Google search leads me to a page with some utility programs. There's supposedly a Perl program to convert ISCII to CSX (whatever that is) and a C program to convert CSX to Unicode. Hope that helps.	[reply]
Re: ISCII to Unicode conversion by Khen1950fx (Canon) on May 22, 2007 at 07:09 UTC
I think that I've found a quick way to translate a string in Devanagari to Unicode. CPAN has Unicode::Indic and Unicode::Indic::Devanagari. Unfortunately, there's a few problems with the code; however, I managed to get this far: `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; no warnings; use Unicode::Indic::Devanagari; my $lang = Unicode::Indic::Devanagari->new(); print $lang->translate("namaskaaraM baagunnaaraa?");` [download]	[reply] [d/l]