Re: Reading Arabic Characters on Sun OS

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Hemali Majithia <majithia at streamsage dot com> wrote:
> I am trying to train English-Arabic (which is in UTF-8) using some tools
> written in C++ for MT.

Which tool is this and what are you trying to learn ?  Is this a tool
to teach you Arabic ?  URL please.

> 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.

Not sure what to say - you might want to ask your sys-admin.  Seems like
some library issue or something.
 
> 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.

311 octal is C9 hex which is one of the two bytes that make up one of
the characters so its not enough to decipher what it is that it barfed
on, but even if you know its letter X, then what ?  That won't solve
your problem - sounds like debugging this might take some in depth
library peering (nasty stuff I'd guess).

Sorry and Salam.

 - Nadim


	
		
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