Re: Charset API for C++

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

Sorry, a mistake occured

<correction>

This may be a very simple task, but I **think** it must be
"standardized"  and "coded" at least for arabic software development to not reinvent the  wheel everytime somebody starts a new software project.

</correction>

Regards,

LA

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 02:05:54PM +0200, lam wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 03:48:35PM +0400, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 14:31, lemine dot abdallahi at wanadoo dot fr wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I'm working on a C++ project which deals with charset conversions. These
> > > conversions occur within the same language charsets ( Arabic, No need to
> > > have a very generic API).
> > 
> > Character conversion (especially if it is as limited as you say you want
> > it to be) is not so complicated that you should require an extra library
> > just to do this for you. Have a look at iconv, take the parts that you
> > need and leave the rest alone -- or write your own. It's a pretty
> > straight-forward thing.
> 
> Yes, what I need is not that complicated. As you said, 
> 
> I only want to be able to get any charset as input and to perform output in any other charset.
> 
> But the most important is "the internal storage format". I know the answer
> is probably "unicode", but what c++ type is prefered for storing unicode
> strings.
> 
> Are there any issues with 8 and 16 bit characters to deal with ? Is the
> storage format the same ? Can one use the standrad string types for this
> in a portable way ? 
> 
> This may be a very simple task, but I dont think it must be "standardized" 
> and "coded" at least for arabic software development to not reinvent the
> wheel everytime somebody starts a new software project.  
> 
> regards,
> 
> LA.
> 
> > 
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