README.md

CSV Character Extractor

Functionality

Extract all unique characters of each column of a csv file, combine and manipulate results and store the results in text files for further usage.
This tool was developed to create font assets for TextmeshPro in Unity. Creating textures with just the character you need is essential for languages like Chinese, Japanese or Korean.

Input

• Input file can be defined in config.xml, default value is "in/example.csv"
• Languages are defined in columns, first column defines the language name (see example.csv)
• Column ID and Description will be ignored
• Newline character (\n\r) and all emojis will be ignored

Output

• Text files are created for each language and named "ColumnName.txt". Output path can be defined in config.xml
• One file per column, expecting to have one language per column

Requirements

• Java Runtime environment

Download

• latest release

Run

• Windows: Doubleclick Run.bat
• Windows, Mac, Linux: Run java -jar CsvCharacterExtractor.jar in the terminal

Config usage

• With the config you can set the in and out path as well as characters that should be always or never included. Take a look at the example config
• Paths can be relative, e.g. in/example.csv
• Paths can be absolute, e.g. C:/Users/UserName/Documents/LanguageCharacterFiles/
• Use forward slashes only /
• Automatically add lower and upper case charaters to the unique characters file
• Create union files of multiple separate columns

Example

Example Spreadsheet

Roadmap

• Document code
• Add information on how to build the project

Third Party Libraries

• https://github.com/uniVocity/univocity-parsers (Apache 2.0 License)
• https://github.com/vdurmont/emoji-java (MIT License)