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! 28: <p><a href="/"><img border="0" src="/Icons/WWW/w3c_home" alt="W3C" width="72"
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! 32: <h1>Charlint - A Character Normalization Tool</h1>
! 33:
! 34: <p><a href="#Perl">Perl source</a> | <a href="#Recommended">Recommended Data
! 35: Files</a> | <a href="#How">How to use</a> | <a href="#Future">Future Plans</a>
! 36: | <a href="#Background">Background </a>| <a href="#Version">Version
! 37: History</a></p>
! 38:
! 39: <p>Charlint is a character normalization/checking tool written in Perl. Among
! 40: else, it implements Normalization Form C of <a
! 41: href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/">Unicode TR 15</a>.</p>
! 42:
! 43: <h3><a name="Perl">Perl Source</a> and Installation</h3>
! 44:
! 45: <p>Charlint , aka 'Charlie', is written in <a
! 46: href="http://www.perl.com/pace/pub/perldocs/latest.html">Perl 5</a>. You can
! 47: get the source from <a
! 48: href="http://www.w3.org/International/charlint/charlint.pl">http://www.w3.org/International/charlint/charlint.pl</a>.
! 49: Charlint is covered by the <a
! 50: href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software.html">W3C software
! 51: licence</a>. To install charlint, please make sure you have installed <a
! 52: href="http://www.perl.com/pace/pub/perldocs/latest.html">Perl 5</a>, you have
! 53: downloaded an appropriate character data file, and you have downloaded the <a
! 54: href="http://www.w3.org/International/charlint/charlint.pl">Perl source</a>.
! 55: Please send error reports or comments to <a
! 56: href="mailto:duerst@w3.org">duerst@w3.org</a>; for anouncements and public
! 57: discussion please see the Winter mailing list (www-international@w3.org).</p>
! 58:
! 59: <h3><a name="Recommended">Recommended Character Data Files</a></h3>
! 60:
! 61: <p>Charlint needs information on characters in order to work correctly. To
! 62: indicate the file you want to use, please use the -f option. The currently
! 63: recommended character data file is available from <a
! 64: href="ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/3.0-Update/UnicodeData-3.0.0.beta.txt">ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/3.0-Update/UnicodeData-3.0.0.beta.txt</a>.
! 65: Composition exclusions are currently hard-coded and are based on <a
! 66: href="ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/3.0-Update/CompositionExclusions-1.beta.txt">ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/3.0-Update/CompositionExclusions-1.beta.txt</a>
! 67: [version of 04 Aug 1999 for both files]. Additional information on these and
! 68: other files can be found at <a
! 69: href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/versions/Unicode3.0-beta.html">http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/versions/Unicode3.0-beta.html</a>.
! 70: Please note that this data file is a beta version; the beta test will last up
! 71: to 15 August 1999. Using charlint is one way to test this data file. Please
! 72: send any comments on <em>the data file</em> to <a
! 73: href="mailto:errata@unicode.org">errata@unicode.org</a>.</p>
! 74:
! 75: <h3><a name="How">How to use charlint</a></h3>
! 76:
! 77: <p>Charlint is a perl script that works as a simple filter. It uses UTF-8 both
! 78: for input and for output. Behaviour can be fine-tuned with various options. A
! 79: list of options such as the one below can be optained by using <kbd>charlint
! 80: -h</kbd>.</p>
! 81: <pre>(options prefixed by # are currently not available)
1.14 duerst 82: -b: Remove initial 'Byte Order Mark'
83: -B: Supress warning about initial 'Byte Order Mark'
84: -d: Debug: Thoroughly check character data table input
85: -D: Leave after reading in character data
86: -e: # remove undefined codepoints
87: -E: Do not warn about undefined codepoints
88: -f file: Read data from file
89: (please use newest V3.0 beta datafiles)
90: -C: # Do not normalize
91: -h: Prints out this short description
92: -n: Accept &#ddddd; and &#xhhhh; on input
1.34 ! duerst 93: (beware of <![CDATA[, <SCRIPT>, <STYLE>)
1.14 duerst 94: -N: Produce &#xhh; on output
95: -o: Print out 'unprintable' bytes as octal
96: -p: # Remove stuff in private zone
97: -P: Supress checking private zone
98: -u: # Fix UTF-8 (convert or remove)
99: -U: Supress checking correctness of UTF-8
1.34 ! duerst 100: -v: Print version</pre>
! 101:
! 102: <h3><a name="Version">Version History</a></h3>
! 103: <pre># 1999/06/23: 0.30, preparation for W3C member test, without Hangul MJD
1.23 duerst 104: # 1999/06/25: 0.31, fixed reordering bug, going public MJD
1.34 ! duerst 105: # 1999/07/01: 0.32, adapted surrogates/exclusions to 3.0.0.beta MJD<br>
! 106: # 1999/08/16: 0.33, updated for second version of 3.0.0.beta MJD
! 107: # 2000/07/24: 0.34, $chClass = $CombClass{ch}; should read $chClass = $CombClass{$ch};
! 108: # implemented -C MJD</pre>
! 109:
! 110: <h3><a name="Background">Background</a></h3>
! 111: <ul>
! 112: <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-charmod">Character Model for the World
! 113: Wide Web</a> (W3C Working Draft)</li>
! 114: <li><a href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/">Unicode Technical
! 115: Report #15</a> (Version 14 approved subject to various changes)</li>
! 116: <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Status">W3C Open Source Releases</a></li>
! 117: </ul>
! 118:
! 119: <h3><a name="Future">Future Plans</a></h3>
! 120:
! 121: <p>We have just released the first version of charlint. There are many things
! 122: we plan to add in the future:</p>
! 123: <ul>
! 124: <li>Hangul syllable normalization</li>
! 125: <li>Removal of undefined codepoints and codepoints in the private zone</li>
! 126: <li>Removal/fix of incorrect UTF-8</li>
! 127: <li>Incorporate knowledge of V3.0 decompositions to automatically detect
! 128: future precomposites.</li>
! 129: <li>Compatibility character detection or removal.</li>
! 130: <li>Detection or removal of characters not suitable for markup.</li>
! 131: </ul>
! 132:
! 133: <p>Your help (bug reports, patches, ideas, test cases) is welcome.</p>
! 134:
! 135: <p></p>
! 136:
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! 141: <a href="mailto:duerst@w3.org">Martin Dürst</a> <br>
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