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diff --git a/gnu/packages/textutils.scm b/gnu/packages/textutils.scm index 2c520dfbdf..330e10610d 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/textutils.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/textutils.scm @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2016 Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> ;;; Copyright © 2017 Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org> ;;; Copyright © 2017 Rene Saavedra <rennes@openmailbox.org> -;;; Copyright © 2017 Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> +;;; Copyright © 2017,2019 Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> ;;; Copyright © 2017 Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net> ;;; Copyright © 2017 Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> ;;; Copyright © 2018 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ #:use-module (guix build-system python) #:use-module (gnu packages) #:use-module (gnu packages autotools) + #:use-module (gnu packages base) #:use-module (gnu packages compression) #:use-module (gnu packages gettext) #:use-module (gnu packages java) @@ -321,6 +322,112 @@ input bits thoroughly but are not suitable for cryptography.") ;; entails." (license license:public-domain))) +(define-public ascii2binary + (package + (name "ascii2binary") + (version "2.14") + (source + (origin + (method url-fetch) + (uri (string-append "http://billposer.org/Software/Downloads/" + "ascii2binary-" version ".tar.bz2")) + (sha256 + (base32 "0dc9fxcdmppbs9s06jvq61zbk552laxps0xyk098gj41697ihd96")))) + (build-system gnu-build-system) + (native-inputs + `(("gettext" ,gettext-minimal))) + (home-page "https://billposer.org/Software/a2b.html") + (synopsis "Convert between ASCII, hexadecimal and binary representations") + (description "The two programs are useful for generating test data, for +inspecting binary files, and for interfacing programs that generate textual +output to programs that require binary input and conversely. They can also be +useful when it is desired to reformat numbers. + +@itemize + +@item @command{ascii2binary} reads input consisting of ascii or hexadecimal + representation numbers separated by whitespace and produces as output + the binary equivalents. The type and precision of the binary output + is selected using command line flags. + +@item @command{binary2ascii} reads input consisting of binary numbers + and converts them to their ascii or hexadecimal representation. + Command line flags specify the type and size of the binary numbers + and provide control over the format of the output. + Unsigned integers may be written out in binary, octal, decimal, + or hexadecimal. + + Signed integers may be written out only in binary or decimal. Floating + point numbers may be written out only decimal, either in standard or + scientific notation. (If you want to examine the binary representation + of floating point numbers, just treat the input as a sequence of unsigned + characters.) + +@end itemize") + (license license:gpl3))) + +(define-public uniutils + (package + (name "uniutils") + (version "2.27") + (source + (origin + (method url-fetch) + (uri (string-append "http://billposer.org/Software/Downloads/" + "uniutils-" version ".tar.bz2")) + (sha256 + (base32 "19w1510w87gx7n4qy3zsb0m467a4rn5scvh4ajajg7jh6x5xri08")))) + (build-system gnu-build-system) + (arguments + '(#:configure-flags '("--disable-dependency-tracking") + #:phases + (modify-phases %standard-phases + (add-after 'build 'fix-paths + (lambda* (#:key outputs inputs #:allow-other-keys) + (let ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out")) + (a2b (assoc-ref inputs "ascii2binary")) + (iconv (assoc-ref inputs "libiconv"))) + (substitute* "utf8lookup" + (("^ascii2binary ") (string-append a2b "/bin/ascii2binary ")) + (("^uniname ") (string-append out "/bin/uniname ")) + (("^iconv ") (string-append iconv "/bin/iconv "))) + #t)))))) + (inputs + `(("ascii2binary" ,ascii2binary) + ("libiconv" ,libiconv))) + (home-page "https://billposer.org/Software/unidesc.html") + (synopsis "Find out what is in a Unicode file") + (description "Useful tools when working with Unicode files when one +doesn't know the writing system, doesn't have the necessary font, needs to +inspect invisible characters, needs to find out whether characters have been +combined or in what order they occur, or needs statistics on which characters +occur. + +@itemize + +@item @command{uniname} defaults to printing the character offset of each +character, its byte offset, its hex code value, its encoding, the glyph +itself, and its name. It may also be used to validate UTF-8 input. + +@item @command{unidesc} reports the character ranges to which different +portions of the text belong. It can also be used to identify Unicode encodings +(e.g. UTF-16be) flagged by magic numbers. + +@item @command{unihist} generates a histogram of the characters in its input. + +@item @command{ExplicateUTF8} is intended for debugging or for learning about +Unicode. It determines and explains the validity of a sequence of bytes as a +UTF8 encoding. + +@item @command{utf8lookup} provides a handy way to look up Unicode characters +from the command line. + +@item @command{unireverse} reverse each line of UTF-8 input +character-by-character. + +@end itemize") + (license license:gpl3))) + (define-public libconfig (package (name "libconfig") |