Re: Unicode Help

[Gregg Reynolds <gar at arabink dot com>]

zeeshan aslam wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am a student of BCS, right now confused at a point of the programming 
> of C & C++.
>
> My objective is:  To copy the arabic text data (each character one by 
> one ) written in one text file (MS Office Word) example  Read.doc   to 
> the another text file (MS Office Word) example  Write.doc

First off, study the Unicode book at http://www.unicode.org.  Especially 
pay attention to the difference between characters and bytes.  Your 
program copies bytes, not characters.  Or rather, its a mix: you open 
your files in binary mode, but you use "getc" and "putc", which operate 
on characters.  Different compilers might behave differently, since it 
depends on how you define "character".  It also depends on what 
operating system you're on.  It gets rather complicated.

I recommend taking a look at the GNU C library docs:

	http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/I_002fO-Overview.html#I_002fO-Overview

also:

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Character-Input.html#Character-Input

and

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Binary-Streams.html#Binary-Streams

If you're going to program at a low level you need to know all that stuff.

If you plan on becoming a real programmer, start learning emacs (my fav) 
or vi (lots of others like it).

Hope that helps.