> From: koray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Lam-Alif and ISO-8859-6 > > We are working on a project about converting IBM EBCDIC 420 - Arabic to > ISO-8859-6 Arabic. We use iconv utility to convert the charset.But after > conversion we cannot see the Lam-Alif character on linux systems > (suse,redhat,debian etc.).I've read various documents and saw that > Lam-Alif character doesnt exist in ISO-8859-6. So, i want to ask you, > how did you see,use,print etc. the Lam-Alif character on Linux systems > before UTF-8? I need your advices.( By the way, there is no problem with > utf-8 but we have to convert to iso-8859-6 )
ISO 8859-6 is a character encoding, not a glyph encoding. Lam-ALif is not a character but a glyph ligature to be produced by the rendering software. IIRC there also is no Lam-Alif in UTF-8, for the same reason. It MAY be present with the Arabic Presentation Forms; cannot presently check that. HTH Klaus -- Prof. Dr. Klaus Lagally | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Institut fuer Formale | http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ ... Methoden der Informatik| ... fmi/bs/people/lagally.htm Abteilung Betriebsoftware| Tel. +49-711-7816392 |Zeige mir deine Uhr, Universitaetsstrasse 38 | FAX +49-711-7816370 | und ich sage dir, 70569 Stuttgart, GERMANY | | wie spaet es ist. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
