Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Baraha - Telugu Font - BRH Telugu - ANSI to UNICODE Conversion

Recently I worked on converting a Legacy VB.NET Windows application to C# based Web application. One of our client used a Baraha software in the windows application and Telugu data is saved in ANSI Format and its not readable from SQL Server Database. It looks something like "È¢ÀÀlµdº ¶ªA¶¢hµù±µA" for "మొదటి సంవత్సరం". I really had hard time converting the ANSI format to Unicode using Baraha. I couldn't find any solution online and reached out to Baraha Support but still couldn't find a solution. Finding out the 6th step in the steps below was crucial. So thought of sharing the information in my blog so that it will be useful to some other developers.
You can find more information on their website http://www.baraha.com/
Below are the steps to convert them.

1. Open the Baraha 8.0 version, Goto Settings --> Other.
2. Change the Editor Font to "BRH Telugu". Click Ok.
3. Copy the ANSI text as below.
È¢ÀÀlµdº ¶ªA¶¢hµù±µA
4. Paste in the text editor in Baraha 8.0.
5. Confirm that text is readable in Telugu.
6. Copy the text FROM THE EDITOR ONLY (Place where you copied to) and paste in Baraha new version Baraha 10.10.168. Need IME Version of it.
7. Translate using the button to display in upper/top section.
8. Right click and copy using "Unicode" selection and Paste in Excel or Text file as "మొదటి సంవత్సరం".

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