Thai-Pali Tipitaka Program
From: Yuttadhammo
Message: 1844
Date: 2006-05-19
Dear Friends,
I have put together a simple program containing a set of texts supposing
to be the standard Thai version of the Tipitaka, here converted into
Roman script, taken from the same files that can be found on several
Thai Buddhist Internet websites (thus assumed to be in the public
domain) As the conversion process of over 20,000 files was somewhat
complicated (especially given that every o and every e had to be moved
from before the consonant or consonant cluster to after), I am not sure
the files are 100% correct. Of course, I am not sure the original files
were correctly proofread, containing as they do on the first page the
word bhikkhumsa"nghena (sic).
Anyway, maybe it is useful to have... no atthakatha yet, but the simple
interface allows one to browse by page or book of the canon (no search
function either). The program is split into two parts for ease of
updating, and can be downloaded from these two links:
http://yuttadhammo.sirimangalo.org/files/ThaiPali.zip
http://yuttadhammo.sirimangalo.org/files/ThaiPaliPages.zip
Once you have downloaded, unzip the two files in the same place, and
they should create the directory "ThaiPali". Open the directory and run
index.htm. Works on Firefox and IE 7 Beta 2, and should be
cross-platform (ie work on Windows, Mac, Linux, etc)
Please let me know if you find any bugs, either in the script or in the
files themselves.
Best wishes,
Yuttadhammo