On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:10:53PM +0400, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote: > 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.
Yes, what I am looking for is merely a "Quick and Dirty Input Output Code" which is compliant with the recommendations and which is useful for projects in which the I/O is secondary. I think no library is implemented with this goal in mind, but a lot of developpers do it without noticing. > > > 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 ;) > Good Idea. May it be named "Application compliance across programming languages" ? where users can give ideas and/or code for implementing compliant code for their respective favorite language(s) .... > Off-Topic: I love it when people quote documents from Arabeyes -- it > means they have done their homework ;) > Do it the professional way !!! Documentation is made to be read, especially if it gives valuable content. > > 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. > I think I will dive into the various libraries code. > 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 Thanks for these intersting links. Regards, LA _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
