Reading Arabic Characters on Sun OS

[Hemali Majithia <majithia at streamsage dot com>]

Hi All,

I am trying to train English-Arabic (which is in UTF-8) using some tools
written in C++ for MT.

The tool works fine on Linux Machines and also on Sun 5.8 However when I
try to use the same files with the same tool on Sun 5.6, it gives me an
error while trying to read some arabic characters.

I am not sure what's causing the error. But from what is seems when the
program encouters a \311 character with locale set to C it does not like
it and throws the error. I am not sure what is the equivalent of \311 in
arabic.

If someone has come across a similar problem, please let me know.

Thanks,
Hemali

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Hemali Majithia wrote:

> Hi Anmar,
>
> Thanks a lot !!! I got it to work after converting the file to utf-8.
>
> -Hemali
>
> On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Anmar Oueja wrote:
>
> > Hello Hemali:
> >
> > I strongly suggest you convert the file from iso8859-6 to utf-8 then
> > view it using mlterm.
> >
> > I do not know of an iso8859-6 yet sorry.
> >
> > Anmar
> >
> > Hemali Majithia wrote:
> > > Hi Everyone,
> > >
> > > I have been trying to set up mlterm to view Arabic ISO-8859 text. I am
> > > using Debian. I am not sure which locale to use. I am using ar_EG.iso88596
> > > (which is the only option I found for arabic in terms of iso 8859).
> > >
> > > When I try to start my mlterm, I get an error :
> > > No fonts found for charset "iso8859-6" Please install fonts or use Unicode
> > > font ("-u" option).
> > >
> > > Do I need to install fonts or need to use some other locale or set
> > > something else in my fonts file ?
> > >
> > > Can someone please let me know if they have come across this particular
> > > problem?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Hemali
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > General mailing list
> > > General at arabeyes dot org
> > > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
> > _______________________________________________
> > General mailing list
> > General at arabeyes dot org
> > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
> >
>