Avestan Editor

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Avestan Editor is a cross-platform Unicode text editor for ancient scripts and other writing systems, built with Qt & C++. Its software keyboard starts with Avesta, Pahlavi, Parthian, and Ancient Persian, followed by other historic scripts, other Unicode scripts, general symbols, and an All printable Unicode keyboard..

The editor runs on Linux, Windows, and Android. You can open, edit, and save Unicode text documents in UTF-8 (with or without BOM), UTF-16 LE/BE, or BOM-marked UTF-32 LE/BE. Invalid UTF data is rejected instead of silently replaced. All settings, language data, readings, Unicode character names, and user-visible strings are embedded from the assets/ directory through Qt resources.

Summer Avestan Editor V 1.0 on Linux Desktop

Run and build

Requires a Qt 6 development environment with Qt Widgets and Qt Test (qmake6). On Debian/Ubuntu install qt6-base-dev and qt6-base-dev-tools.

The Makefile builds native and cross-platform targets. Output files are named <AppName>-<OS>-<arch>, for example SummerAvestanEditor-Linux-amd64, SummerAvestanEditor-Termux-arm64, SummerAvestanEditor-Windows-amd64.exe, and SummerAvestanEditor-Android-arm64.apk.

make                 # native build (Linux on a desktop, Termux in Termux)
make linux           # desktop Linux binary
make termux          # Termux (Android/bionic) binary
make windows         # Windows .exe
make android         # Android .apk
make test            # Qt Test regression suite
make run             # run the native build
make clean           # remove dist/ and test builds

Architecture-specific targets are linux-amd64 linux-arm64 linux-386, termux-arm64 termux-arm arm termux-amd64, windows-amd64 windows-arm64 windows-386, and android-arm64 android-arm android-amd64. Cross builds need a Qt kit built for the target, so point the relevant variable at that kit's qmake. The Windows qmake project embeds img/Icon.ico as the executable icon. Regenerate it from img/Icon.png with python3 scripts/create-windows-icon.py (requires libpng):

python3 scripts/create-windows-icon.py
make windows WINDOWS_QMAKE=/opt/Qt/6.8.0/mingw_64/bin/qmake
make android ANDROID_QMAKE=$HOME/Qt/6.8.0/android_arm64_v8a/bin/qmake \
             ANDROID_NDK_ROOT=$HOME/Android/Sdk/ndk/27.0.12077973

The single-file qmake build is still available as qmake6 AvestanEditor.pro && make (or make build), and bash tests/run-tests.sh runs the tests. A CMake project file is also provided for portability. Some Termux Qt packages ship incomplete Qt plugin CMake metadata (a dangling GTK3 platform-theme target), which makes find_package(Qt6) fail before compilation; the qmake project is the canonical, working build path. Android packaging follows the usual Qt for Android workflow (androiddeployqt with the Android SDK/NDK).

Desktop and portable Linux builds

After make linux-amd64, install a per-user desktop launcher with ./scripts/install-desktop-launcher.sh. It copies the executable into ~/.local/opt and installs the icon and .desktop entry. The target machine still needs compatible Qt 6 runtime libraries. To create a bundled AppImage, run ./scripts/package-portable-appimage.sh; it downloads linuxdeploy and its Qt plugin and bundles the runtime. Review downloaded tools and dependencies before using them on production systems.

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