Re: Charset API for C++

[Lemine Abdallahi <lemine dot abdallahi at wanadoo dot fr>]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 03:48:35PM +0400, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 14:31, lemine dot abdallahi at wanadoo dot fr wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm working on a C++ project which deals with charset conversions. These
> > conversions occur within the same language charsets ( Arabic, No need to
> > have a very generic API).
> 
> Character conversion (especially if it is as limited as you say you want
> it to be) is not so complicated that you should require an extra library
> just to do this for you. Have a look at iconv, take the parts that you
> need and leave the rest alone -- or write your own. It's a pretty
> straight-forward thing.

Yes, what I need is not that complicated. As you said, 

I only want to be able to get any charset as input and to perform output in any other charset.

But the most important is "the internal storage format". I know the answer
is probably "unicode", but what c++ type is prefered for storing unicode
strings.

Are there any issues with 8 and 16 bit characters to deal with ? Is the
storage format the same ? Can one use the standrad string types for this
in a portable way ? 

This may be a very simple task, but I dont think it must be "standardized" 
and "coded" at least for arabic software development to not reinvent the
wheel everytime somebody starts a new software project.  

regards,

LA.

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