NAME

       beta2uni - Convert a polytonic Greek document from Beta Code to UTF-8

SYNOPSIS

       beta2uni [-b] [-i input_file.utf8] [-o output_file.beta]

DESCRIPTION

       beta2uni(1)  reads  a document encoded using Beta Code and converts it to UTF-8 Unicode.  Beta Code is an
       ASCII-only encoding scheme most commonly used for digital representation of polytonic Greek.

       Beta Code has become a widely-adopted standard for encoding classical Greek.  It was developed  by  David
       Packard  in  the  1970s  and  adopted by the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) Project at the University of
       California, Irvine shortly thereafter.  This encoding was later adopted by the  Perseus  Project  in  the
       1980s  (originally  at  Harvard  University,  now  at  Tufts University) and by many other collections of
       classical and Koine Greek.  Today, the TLG corpus alone contains over 100 million words from classical to
       Byzantine Greek.

       The TLG uses uppercase Latin letters; the  Perseus  Project  uses  lowercase.   beta2uni(1)  will  accept
       either.

       Many  classicists  who  use  Beta Code have been actively involved in The Unicode Standard, with evolving
       recommendations for mapping between Beta  Code  and  Unicode.   beta2uni(1)  provides  a  capability  for
       GNU/Linux users who wish to convert Beta Code texts to Unicode.

       Note: Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and TLG are registered trademarks of the University of California.

OPTIONS

       -b          Begin  the  UTF-8 output file with the UTF-8 encoding of the Unicode Byte Order Mark, U+FFFE.
                   This is not the default.

       -i          Specify the input file. The default is STDIN.

       -o          Specify the output file. The default is STDOUT.

       Sample usage:

              beta2uni -i my_input_file.beta -o my_output_file.utf8

FILES

       ASCII text files using Beta Code to encode polytonic Greek.

SEE ALSO

       unibetaprep(1), uni2beta(1), unibetacode(5)

AUTHOR

       beta2uni was written by Paul Hardy.

LICENSE

       beta2uni is Copyright © 2018 Paul Hardy.

       This program 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.

BUGS

       No known bugs exist.

                                                   2018 Jun 23                                       BETA2UNI(1)