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Re: Charset API for C++



On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 16:14, Lemine Abdallahi wrote:
> Sorry, a mistake occured
> 
> <correction>
> 
> This may be a very simple task, but I **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.
> 
> </correction>
> 

Not necessarily. Do you think we should implement it in every
programming language possible? I have implemented this in Python (and
yes, to answer your previous question about internal storage, I
personally recommend using Unicode). Should my Python implementation
become the standard? What about the C one? How about C++? Java? Ruby?
Per... nevermind that thing ;)

The point is, things like that are not standardized by writing an
implementation, but by defining how an implementation should be done.
Unicode does that so there is nothing for us to do except follow it (and
advocate it). That is, of course, assuming it is a sane recommendation
from Unicode (and on several occasions, Unicode seems to like to make
very unwise decisions with regard to Arabic).

Regards,
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