I remember someone has already brought this issue up several months ago. As I'm just a newbie in perl, I'm hesitating in reporting this. I'm not 100% sure if it is a bug. Anyway...
Obviously I have overlooked and thanks for rehashing me.
3. Terminal showed
MacArabic "\x20" does not map to Unicode. MacArabic "\x21" does not map to Unicode. MacArabic "\x22" does not map to Unicode.
These are easy to fix; Just copy the missing parts from ASCII.
4. In result.txt, those characters, i.e. \x20-\x2F, \x3A-\x3F, \x5B-\x5F, \x7B-\x7D, \x81, \x8C, \x93, \x98, \x9B, \xA0-\xA4, \xA6-\xAB, \xAD-\xBA, \xBC-\xBE, \xC0, \xDB-\xDF, \xFB-\xFD have not been converted to appropriate characters but changed to hexadecimal notation.
I am not sure if I can fix these by simply reapplying ARABIC.TXT because of BIDI issues.
I think those characters should be converted properly since they are mapped in
<ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/ARABIC.TXT>
Similar results with conversion from MacFarsi and MacHebrew.
Anyway, I will make mac(Arabic|Farsi|Hebrew).ucm available BEFORE releasing the next version of Encode so I appreciate if you test them.
Dan the Encode Maintainer
