Re: Charset API for C++

[Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de>]

Please don't flood the mailbox... 

Arafat

Am Montag, den 20.09.2004, 15:54 +0200 schrieb Lemine Abdallahi:
> 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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