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Convert text from RISC OS encoding to UTF-8
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#!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
""" | |
Convert stdin (text in the standard RISC OS character set) to UTF-8 | |
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_OS_character_set#Code_page_layout_(standard) | |
""" | |
import sys | |
chars = [ | |
#0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f | |
'€','Ŵ','ŵ','◰','🯀','Ŷ','ŷ','⅞','⇦','⇨','⇩','⇧','…','™','‰','•', # 0x8_ | |
'‘','’','‹','›','“','”','„','–','—','−','Œ','œ','†','‡','fi','fl', # 0x9_ | |
] | |
while True: | |
b = sys.stdin.buffer.read(1) | |
if len(b) == 0: | |
break | |
val = ord(b) | |
if val >= 0x80 and val <= 0x9f: | |
diff = val - 0x80 | |
sys.stdout.buffer.write(chars[diff].encode('utf-8')) | |
else: | |
sys.stdout.buffer.write(b.decode('latin1').encode('utf-8')) |
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