I have finished translating jeebies to a widechar Unicode UTF-8 compatible version “jeebies_u”, if anyone wants it – completing my translation of the three tools – gutcheck, gutspell, and jeebies – to Unicode versions:
gutcheck_u, gutspell_u, and jeebies_u.
Jeebies_u appears to be mainly more “Unicode friendly” in practice in that it doesn’t mangle curly quotes and apostrophes, making its output more easily read and understood. If you are not using curlies, it may not buy you much, unless you’re mixing in a bunch of Latin extensions or something. Still, its nice to be looking at output which isn’t corrupted.
Again, this presumably contains a little “Windows Only”-ish which would take some work to find and fix on say Mac.
If people didn’t want “console-out” but would be happy with “file-out” instead then I think it would probably be easier to make these say “Mac friendly.”
FWIW below find a snippet output from gutspell_u if someone doesn’t know what we are talking about (assuming your email reader itself does Unicode!) :
Gutspell, for example, mangles and queries things that it should not, and does not query things that it should:
Égyptologique_, I, p. 121 (the collection in which it is preserved not
Line 2218 - Query word gyptologique
protocol reads: ‘Year 4 in the month of Athyr of King Harmachis, living
Line 2222 - Query word Athyr
eternally, beloved of Isis, beloved of Amonrasonter, the great god.’
Line 2223 - Query word eternally
Senobastis sells 1½ cubits of waste land (about 40 square metres),
Line 2226 - Query word Senobastis
Senobastis sells 1½ cubits of waste land (about 40 square metres),
Line 2226 - Query word sells
Senobastis sells 1½ cubits of waste land (about 40 square metres),
Line 2226 - Query word cubits
Senobastis sells 1½ cubits of waste land (about 40 square metres),
Line 2226 - Query word waste
situated in the endowed land of the god Amon near a place
Line 2227 - Query word endowed
Paos and Psenesis were brothers, a fact which makes the two papyri part
Line 2234 - Query word brothers
notary, ‘Petamenophis, the son of Petemestus, ... who writes in the name
Line 2236 - Query word writes
of the priests of the god Amonrasonter,’ and among the sixteen witnesses
Line 2237 - Query word sixteen
of the priests of the god Amonrasonter,’ and among the sixteen witnesses
Line 2237 - Query word witnesses
on the verso of the papyri eleven are identical in both texts (Pl.
Line 2238 - Query word verso
on the verso of the papyri eleven are identical in both texts (Pl.
Line 2238 - Query word identical
These two documents concern two different sales of temple land in the
Line 2241 - Query word concern
same Theban region between different contractors, of whom two are
Line 2242 - Query word contractors
every sale was concluded by two documents, the agreement for sale
Line 2244 - Query word concluded
is evident that we have only half of the complete acts of the two
Line 2246 - Query word evident
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Compared to Gutspell_u, which does not mangle output, and which queries the things that it should:
Égyptologique_, I, p. 121 (the collection in which it is preserved not
Line 2218 - Query word Égyptologique
protocol reads: ‘Year 4 in the month of Athyr of King Harmachis, living
Line 2222 - Query word Athyr
Senobastis sells 1½ cubits of waste land (about 40 square metres),
Line 2226 - Query word Senobastis
(συγγραφἠ πρἁσεως) and the contract of cession (συγγραφἠ ἁποστασἱου), it
Line 2245 - Query word πρἁσεως
(συγγραφἠ πρἁσεως) and the contract of cession (συγγραφἠ ἁποστασἱου), it
Line 2245 - Query word ἁποστασἱου
text is signed by Thothmosis, and has the date of ‘the year 4 the 30th
Line 2270 - Query word Thothmosis