Re: Charset API for C++

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

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 04:32:28PM +0300, Ahmad Khalifa wrote:
> 
> 
> Mohammed Elzubeir wrote:
> >>This repository may be filled through user (developper) contributions ...
> >>for future projects benefit.
> >>
> >
> >
> >Then start a wiki [3] page and others will update it as things like that
> >come up ;)
> 
> Is there a standard Table to convert from Characters to their respective
> Presentation forms ??


> I wasnt able to find such a Mapping and had to copy off VIM's patch and
> tried to match Characters by eye from the Unicode Charts, and still am
> missing lots of characters and some persian chars too..
> 

I found a lot of these tables in the various libraries. I don't think
there is a standard one (except from unicode.org ?? ). Nevertheless, the
Arabeyes project must have its own table, and we have to define it together.

> If it doesnt exist, then why dont you add that to the Wiki page ???
> 

That's the best way to do it. 

> BTW Lemine, If you can live with just CP-1256 conversion to-fro Unicode,
> you can get the conversion by eye from the CP-1256 chart, which also
> contains the Unicode value for each char...
> AFAIK, Windows-Arabic (CP-1256) and Unicode are the most used Charsets.
> 

I have no preference for a given charset and I can't afford the widows
one. Are therwe any "official" stiatistics on charset usage in arabic ? I
think a lot of people forget the Mac charsets, or are they obsolete ?


Regards,
LA
> 
> ak.
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