BETA2UNI(1) -- 2018 Jun 23

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.

	-v          Print the program version and exit.

	--version   Print the program version and exit.

	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),       libunibetacode(3),
	unibetacode(5)

AUTHOR
	beta2uni was written by Paul Hardy.

LICENSE
	beta2uni is Copyright  2018, 2019, 2020 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.
