On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 02:10:33PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Quoting Lemine Abdallahi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You are right. ICU is open source. To be precise, I think it is "IBM open > > source", which is not exactly "open source". It is also, as you mentioned, > > dont understand what you mean, if you want a certain feature and the licence > allows it, then go ahead and use it, I dont see the problem. > > > HUGE and > > I'm afraid it is not easy to learn or simplify. > > yeah, and lots of dependencies everywhere...
Yes, this is what I wanted to mean by "IBM open source". You have to deal with a lot of unnecessary code and complex dependencies. I don't like corporate software anyway ( don't ask me why , that's a personal phoby lol ). this is without speaking about legal issues. > > > Does anybody have some experience using ICU for Arabic ? > > I do, but with the bidi features, I probably forgot that by now > > try looking at other alternatives from the UNICODE-HOWTO you mentioned, Im > sure they all generate very similar results (if not the same). > I do hear a lot about iconv, so maybe you should look into libiconv a bit > more... > This is exactly what I am looking for. real world experience with APIs. What API do Arabeyes software projects use for charset issues ? Thank you for your feedback on ICU. still need feedback on other APIs. I have some preference for iconv because it is GPL and Linux (glibc) standard, but is it really portable ? very likely. LA. > > ak. > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
