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Author: Keith Briggs (BT Research)
Email: keith dot briggs at bt dot com
Date: 2007-07-03 11:05:46
Subject: Re: Volunteer wanted to check runes
I'll do this. According to zgrep -c -e -rune oe_bosworthtoller.txt.gz, there are only 27 runes in the whole text. But does the current oe_bosworthtoller.txt file incorporate the latest changes? They were reported here on July 1 (Sunday), but you said before that updates only happen on Saturdays.
Keith
> I'd like to ask a volunteer to do a medium-sized job.
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> I added the following entities to the project database of characters:
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> Unicode Entity
> U16A0 &f-rune;
> U16A2 &u-rune;
> U16B3 &c-rune;
> U16B9 &w-rune;
> U16BE &n-rune;
> U16C1 &i-rune;
> U16C3 &y-rune;
> U16C8 &p-rune;
> U16D2 &b-rune;
> U16D6 &e-rune;
> U16D7 &m-rune;
> U16DA &l-rune;
> U16DC &ng-rune;
> U16DE &d-rune;
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> I'd like to ask for a volunteer to check this to make sure I got it right. This involves doing the following:
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> 1. Download the entire text of Bosworth/Toller from h t t p ://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/txt/oe_bosworthtoller.txt
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> 2. Download the PDF file describing the range of Runic characters from the Unicode Consortium: h t t p ://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U16A0.pdf
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> 3. Search for each of the entities listed above. Open each corresponding page as a TIFF or PNG file (see h t t p ://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/oe_bosworthtoller_about.html for the image files). Compare the image of the rune in Bosworth/Toller against the corresponding character code in the Unicode rune document. For example, if the entity in Bosworth/Toller is &d-rune;, then look up character U16DE in the Unicode document, compare the two, and make sure the rune is the correct one.
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> It would be great if you could post your findings to the board.
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> Thanks in advance.
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> --Sean
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