Re: Charset API for C++

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

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 04:25:12PM +0400, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 16:14, Lemine Abdallahi wrote:
> > Sorry, a mistake occured
> > 
> 
> 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 ;)
>

I didnt say it is necessary to have an implementation for each programming
language. But , what about a repository of templates for implementing
"basic" input output operations following the recommendations described here
:

http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/distros/sais-en/asl.html

and here

http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/distros/sais-en/asl-apps.html

Issuing recommendations is good, giving examples, building blocks or
libraries that conform to these recommendations is better ... 
By the way, excellent job, M. Muhammad Alkarouri !!

This repository may be filled through user (developper) contributions ...
for future projects benefit.

> 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).

Sure, Unicode is THE STANDRARD. I agree with you. But , for a novice
developper, It is always frustrating to reimplement everything from
scratch ... 

Regards,

LA