The sequoyah utility converts between the Unicode Cherokee syllabary and the Unicode ASCII transliteration of those syllables.
The ASCII transliterations follow the Unicode code chart transliterations for Unicode ranges U+13A0..U+13FF (Cherokee) and U+AB70..U+ABBF (Cherokee Supplement).
The intention is that this program will facilitate typing Cherokee using Sequoyah's syllabary by using the ASCII syllable transliterations that appear in the Unicode Standard.
For a list of the transliteration mappings, see the file "sequoyah-map.txt", which contains a table of Cherokee syllables and their ASCII transliterations. Better yet, feed the file into the "sequoyah" program to see the transliteration columns flipped!
More information is available in the sequoyah man page
The latest source tarball and GnuPG signature file can be downloaded at these links:
Installing Sequoyah
To install the Sequoyah package on a system with a Unix-style command line interface (GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Cygwin, etc.), type these commands in a terminal window:
make
make check
make install
make clean
The "make check" command will run sequoyah
to convert the file "sequoyah-map.txt" into a file with the Cherokee
and ASCII transliteration swapped, and then run sequoyah
again to test for successful round-trip conversion.
The "make install" command might need to be run as
"sudo make install" on your system. By default,
the sequoyah program will be installed in
"/usr/local/bin",
the section 1 man (manual) page will be installed in
"/usr/local/share/man/man1",
and text files along with Doxygen HTML documentation will be
installed in "/usr/local/share/sequoyah".
Installation directory locations are determined in the top-level
Makefile, and can be redefined there.
The command "make uninstall" will uninstall the
Sequoyah package.
License
The software on this site, unless otherwise noted, is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) version 2.0, or (at your option) a later version.
