Files

XML files

The source form of our translations is XML. We have designed a simple set of “tags” to capture the organization of UDHR. We have a Relax-NG schema: in rnc syntax and in rng syntax.

The encoding of our files is UTF-8, with or without numeric character entities.

Charcount files

The “charcount” files help ensure that no strange character makes it in the data, and help spot easily the presence of ambiguous characters. We do not count characters, but rather clusters of characters, which are more or less combining sequences.

Plain text files

The plain text files are encoded in UTF-8, and produced from the XML files by applying this XSLT stylesheet.

HTML files

The HTML files are encoded in UTF-8, and produced from the XML files by applying this XSLT stylesheet.

PDF files

For the PDF files, we selected fonts which we believe are available without a fee to anyone working on this project. Many thanks to the individuals and foundries who generously made those fonts available. If we misinterpreted a license, please let us know and accept our apologies. This site does not provide the fonts themselves, but here are the places where we found them:

• Arabic: Scheherazade and Lateef from SIL.

• Armenian: FMBF_Hanragitaran from Matenadaran.

• Bengali: SoleimanLipi from Ekushey.

• Canadian Syllabic: Aboriginal Serif from LanguageGeek.

• Cherokee: Aboriginal Serif from LanguageGeek.

• Cyrillic: Charis SIL from SIL.

• Devanagari: Chandas from Mihail Bayaryn.

• Ethiopic: Abyssinica SIL from SIL.

• Georgian: BPG Classic from BPG InfoTech.

• Greek: Galatia SIL from SIL.

• Gujarati: aakar from utkarsh.org.

• Gurmukhi: Saab from the Punjabi Computing Resource Centre.

• Hangul: Baekmuk Batang from Kim Jeong-Hwan.

• Hebrew: Ezra SIL from SIL.

• Han ideographs (for Chinese): TSC JSong S TT (simplified) and TSC FMing S TT (traditional) from TwinBridge Software.

• Han ideographs (for Japanese), Hiragana: Kochi Mincho from the efont project.

• Kannada: Kedage from the Brahmi project at sourceforge.net.

• Lao: Saysettha OT from John Dundin.

• Latin: Charis SIL from SIL.

• Myanmar: Myanmar2 from the Myanmar Unicode & NLP Research Center.

• Tagalog: Tagalog Doctrina 1593 from Paul Morrow.

• Tamil: ETTamilNew from Ernst Tremel.

• Thaana: Mv Elaaf Normal from the Maldives Ministry of Communication, Science, and Technology.

• Thai: Norasi from The National Font Project.

• Tibetan: Tibetan Machine Uni from the THDL project.

• Tifinagh: Tifinaghe-Ircam Unicode from the Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe.

• Vai: Dukor from SIL and Michael Everson.

• Yi: SIL Yi from SIL.