See the documentation that comes with the program for more details. Then select your conversion options and press “Transcode”. To transcode your text, just select in the provided lists the Greek font currently used in your document (the “source” font) as well as the Greek font that uses the encoding you wish to use from now on (the “target” font): While Microsoft Word cannot identify encodings, it can find and replace fonts based on their names, even if they are not installed. Note: GreekTranscoder does not support Windows “symbol” fonts if your documents use such fonts you should register Ralph Hancock’s and Denis Liégeois’s program Antioch and use it to convert them. It means the source code is readily available: just open the template in Microsoft Word as you would any other document and launch Visual Basic Editor to access it. This version of the program is released under the GPL. Note: Microsoft Word 97, although it supports Unicode, uses an older and incompatible version of Visual Basic and is not compatible with GreekTranscoder. GreekTranscoder has been tested successfully with Microsoft Word 2019 and Windows 10.
Note: you must update your copy of Microsoft Word 2016 to version 15.39 (or later) in order to use GreekTranscoder under macOS High Sierra (or later). Note: GreekTranscoder is not compatible with Microsoft Word 2008, which does not support macros any longer. The program has been tested successfully under Microsoft Word 2019 and macOS Catalina.
This is the first version of the application that fully supports Unicode, which is required by GreekTranscoder.
A Unicode text can be converted into Unicode itself with different conversion settings. It also lets you conform to the TLG usage regarding Unicode codepoints which, according to the TLG, should be “deprecated”. The program lets you choose which option you wish to apply to your Unicode text. However, it also allows converting text between older encodings as well as from Unicode into those obsolete formats.Ĭurrently GreekTranscoder supports the following legacy encodings:Īnd, of course, GreekTranscoder supports Unicode, using either composed or composing characters. Its primary goal is to allow the conversion of documents using older fonts and encodings into Unicode fonts. GreekTranscoder is a program which converts polytonic Greek characters written using one text encoding into another one. See the GNU General Public License for more details.Ī copy of the GNU General Public License comes with GreekTranscoder. GreekTranscoder is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
GreekTranscoder is free software you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.