On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 22:36, Subhobroto Sinha wrote: > Hello all > > I wrote this in order to learn and discuss a few > things about Unicode. > > This mail is mainly meant for Sayamindu (as both > Indrada and Arijitda recommended this topic to be > discussed with him as developing Ankur has made him an > Unicode guru!), but anybody who can help is welcome > to.
khaiche... don't embarrass me before public. ok?? > > I just wanted to know the development and usage part > of Unicode and howto convert from Unicode to ASCII > etc, internal representation (unsigned short int ?)... > Leave out the GNU Library functions offered by Libc > > Currently I am writing stuff like this to convert > Unicode to ASCII: > > 'while(*szASCIIStringDest++=**sUnicodeStringDest++);' > > where 'szASCIIStringDest' is a 'char*' and > 'sUnicodeStringDest' is a 'wchar_t*' ore baba - can you use some spaces to make your code a little bit readable?? ;-) from your query, most probably, you are looking for iconv(). ..anyway, do a man iconv to find out how to do it the "proper way" (http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man3/iconv.3.html) (err... hopefully I am correct here - if not, do not hesitate to give gaali - i am self taught, and may have misconceptions) > > This seems to work but I know THAT's NOT the way.... > ;) > > I would ALSO like to know how Bengali(or for that > matter Hindi?) is represented in Unicode. hmm - difficult thing - could you be a more specific?? the code chart for bengali is available at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0980.pdf ..however, I would also recommend that you skim through the Unicode standard book (http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/) > > PLEASE do NOT refer me to the Unicode site > (www.unicode.org). The info there is WAY TOO much for > my neurons to handle ;) ahh - ok - but if possible, please do read up 1. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html 2. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/index.en.html 3. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/utfencodingforms/ (the second one is written by a Japanese, so the English is a little "strange" at some places, but otherwise, it is quite good for a programmers angle) There is also an interesting article on joelonsoftware.com, but I guess you already know that. ..anyway, hopefully these will help.. -have a nice day- sdg PS: no need to cc me - i read the ilug-cal mails. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
