NAME

       uni2beta - Convert a polytonic Greek document from UTF-8 Unicode to Beta Code

SYNOPSIS

       uni2beta [{-l|-u}] [-i input_file.beta] [-o output_file.utf8]

DESCRIPTION

       uni2beta(1)  reads a document encoded using Unicode and converts it to Beta Code.  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  for encoding; the Perseus Project uses lowercase.  uni2beta(1)
       defaults to lowercase output.  This can be overridden with the `-u' (generate uppercase) option.

       Many classicists who use Beta Code have been actively involved in The  Unicode  Standard,  with  evolving
       recommendations  for  mapping  between  Beta  Code  and  Unicode.   uni2beta(1) provides a capability for
       GNU/Linux users who wish to convert Unicode texts to Beta Code.

       Any encountered UTF-8 Unicode Byte Order Mark (BOM), U+FFFE, is ignored.

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

OPTIONS

       -l          Create Beta Code output file using lowercase Latin letters.  This is the convention that  the
                   Perseus Project uses.  This is the default.

       -u          Create  Beta Code output file using uppercase Latin letters.  This is the convention that the
                   TLG Project uses.

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

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

       Sample usage:

              uni2beta -i my_input_file.utf8 -o my_output_file.beta

FILES

       Polytonic Greek files in UTF-8 Unicode.

SEE ALSO

       unibetaprep(1), beta2uni(1), unibetacode(5)

AUTHOR

       uni2beta was written by Paul Hardy.

LICENSE

       uni2beta 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                                       UNI2BETA(1)