Lithuanian Text Tool

What is it?

In the old dark times many different encodings were used for Lithuanian texts. LTT (Lithuanian Text Tool) is a small program that does two things:

it tries to guess which encoding was used for the text

$ ltt index.in
index.in
Probability   Charset                                      Seen characters      
    57%  *!   Latin-7/ISO-8859-13/Baltic-RIM/ANSI-1257     .........ąč.ėįšųūž
    38%       771/773/KBL                                  ..š...ų.........ū.
     4%       Latin-4/ISO-8859-4/Latin-6/ISO-8859-10       ..........č.....ž.
  * -- file contains Lithuanian letters unique to this charset
  ! -- file contains no Lithuanian letters outside of this charset

it can recode Lithuanian letters from one encoding to another

$ ltt -c latin-7 latin-4 index.in
Latin-7/ISO-8859-13/Baltic-RIM/ANSI-1257 -> Latin-4/ISO-8859-4/Latin-6/ISO-8859-10:
index.in

$ ltt index.in
index.in
Probability   Charset                                      Seen characters
    66%  *!   Latin-4/ISO-8859-4/Latin-6/ISO-8859-10       .........±č.ģē¹łž¾
    16%       771/773/KBL                                  ...............ł..
    11%       Latin-7/ISO-8859-13/Baltic-RIM/ANSI-1257     ..........č......ž
     5%       772/774/775                                  .....¾............
  * -- file contains Lithuanian letters unique to this charset
  ! -- file contains no Lithuanian letters outside of this charset

Notes

Only Lithuanian national letters are recoded
The following encodings are supported:
- 772, 774, 775
- 770 (also known as IBM Baltic)
- 771 (also known as KBL), 773
- ISO-8859-13 (also known as Latin-7), Windows-1257 (also known as Baltic RIM)
- ISO-8859-4 (also known as Latin-4), ISO-8859-10 (also known as Latin-6)
Encodings that share the same Lithuanian letter positions are listed on one line.
It is also possible to convert text to plain ASCII (but, unfortunatelly, not back)
User interface is in English (that might seem strange considering its purpose and target audience)
Ltt is written in Pascal. It can be compiled for DOS, Windows Linux by using Turbo Pascal, Borland Delphi and Free Pascal.
Ltt is Free Software licenced under the GNU GPL.

Usage

$ ltt
Lithuanian Text Tool version 0.9.0
Copyright (c) 1999-2001 Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@b4net.lt>
This is Free Software.  See the GNU General Public Licence for details.         

Try to autodetect charset:
  ltt [-q] <filename>

      -q        quick mode: only check first kilobyte

Convert between charsets:
  ltt -c <charset1> <charset2> [-b <ext>] <filename> ...

      -b <ext>  create backup files with extension <ext>
                (<ext> should begin with a dot, e.g. -b .bak)

Use `-' instead of <filename> for standard input

Possible charset values:
  772 774 775
  770
  771 773 kbl
  lat7 latin-7 iso-8859-13 brim baltic-rim 1257
  lat4 latin-4 iso-8859-4 lat6 latin-6 iso-8859-10
You can also use `ascii' for <charset2>

Note: only 18 Lithuanian national letters are affected.

Download

LTT version 0.9.0

ltt.pas (16K) -- source code
COPYING (18K) -- licence (GNU GPL v2)
ltt-0.9.0.zip (51K) -- ZIP archive containing source code and precompiled Windows and DOS executables.
ltt-0.9.0.tar.gz (46K) -- TAR.GZ archive containing source code and precompiled Linux executable.

Linux

ltt (79K) -- static ELF executable for i386

Windows

ltt32.exe (51K) -- Win32 executable

DOS

ltt16.exe (13K) -- DOS executable