On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 04:32:28PM +0300, Ahmad Khalifa wrote: > > > Mohammed Elzubeir wrote: > >>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 ;) > > Is there a standard Table to convert from Characters to their respective > Presentation forms ??
> I wasnt able to find such a Mapping and had to copy off VIM's patch and > tried to match Characters by eye from the Unicode Charts, and still am > missing lots of characters and some persian chars too.. > I found a lot of these tables in the various libraries. I don't think there is a standard one (except from unicode.org ?? ). Nevertheless, the Arabeyes project must have its own table, and we have to define it together. > If it doesnt exist, then why dont you add that to the Wiki page ??? > That's the best way to do it. > BTW Lemine, If you can live with just CP-1256 conversion to-fro Unicode, > you can get the conversion by eye from the CP-1256 chart, which also > contains the Unicode value for each char... > AFAIK, Windows-Arabic (CP-1256) and Unicode are the most used Charsets. > I have no preference for a given charset and I can't afford the widows one. Are therwe any "official" stiatistics on charset usage in arabic ? I think a lot of people forget the Mac charsets, or are they obsolete ? Regards, 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
