On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 16:51, Lemine Abdallahi wrote: > I didnt say it is necessary to have an implementation for each programming > language. But , what about a repository of templates for implementing > "basic" input output operations following the recommendations described here > : > > http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/distros/sais-en/asl.html > > and here > > http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/distros/sais-en/asl-apps.html > > Issuing recommendations is good, giving examples, building blocks or > libraries that conform to these recommendations is better ... > By the way, excellent job, M. Muhammad Alkarouri !! > You are right. Though, what you are asking for specifically is something that is often a part of a bigger library and I have not seen it all by itself except in libiconv [1] (and even that, does more than what you need). I believe Katoob [2] uses libiconv as well. > 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 ;) Off-Topic: I love it when people quote documents from Arabeyes -- it means they have done their homework ;) > Sure, Unicode is THE STANDRARD. I agree with you. But , for a novice > developper, It is always frustrating to reimplement everything from > scratch ... > Again, you are right.. I just think character conversion is too simple to have to write about it. You may consider it to be important and you may very well be right -- the best thing to do is to follow some of the above mentioned suggestions. It is also worth noting that you should be aware of the LAM ALEF issue [4] in iconv. [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ [2] http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=katoob [3] http://wiki.arabeyes.org/ [4] http://www.foolab.org/node/view/91 Regards, -- ------------------------------------------------------- | Mohammed Elzubeir | Visit us at: | | | http://www.arabeyes.org/ | | Arabeyes Project | Homepage: | | Unix the 'right' way | http://elzubeir.fakkir.net/ | -------------------------------------------------------
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