Re: Picu: Perl wrappers for ICU (compile issue)

2000-12-14 Thread bstell
If you have ICU compile issues you should email the ICU mail list at: icu list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I see messages on this list indicating a large variety of OSs (and most of the messages are not about compile issues). I never had any serious compile issues but then I've only trie

Re: Picu: Perl wrappers for ICU (sourceforge cvs issue)

2000-12-14 Thread bstell
Has anyone succeeded with anonymous cvs at picu/sourceforge? I'm a new to sourceforge so I can't tell if they may be having system problems or if I need to do something. Until this is working smoothly I will gladly email the source (about 50K as an email) to anyone that requests it. Brian Stel

unicode/locale question

2000-12-14 Thread Rami Friedman
I need to read files written in a variety of charsets (Big5, Arabic, Hebrew, etc) and write their contents to an oracle database. This problem is easy to solve in Java where each feed gets converted to a ucs-2 string, but, if possible, I need to write the code in perl. Can this be done? The thi

Re: unicode/locale question

2000-12-14 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Rami Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I need to read files written in a variety of charsets (Big5, Arabic, >Hebrew, etc) and write their contents to an oracle database. This >problem is easy to solve in Java where each feed gets converted to a >ucs-2 string, but, if possible, I need to write

Re: unicode/locale question

2000-12-14 Thread Ken Shan
On 2000-12-14T11:55:57-0800, Rami Friedman wrote: > Could I instead rely on the database driver to convert from the > foreign charset to unicode? I don't see why not. Have you looked at the Oracle documentation for its NLS support? The Oracle driver should be happy to perform the encoding conve

Re: unicode/locale question

2000-12-14 Thread Sharon O'Connor
Yes you should have NLS_LANG=american_america.UTF8 where the language and territory are whatever the database was originally set up in as this is the language that messages from the database will be returned in. Ken Shan wrote: > On 2000-12-14T11:55:57-0800, Rami Friedman wrote: > > Could I inst

Re: Picu: Perl wrappers for ICU

2000-12-14 Thread Ed Batutis
>How easy is it currently to compile ICU itself in a non-AIX non-IBM >environment? I attempted that a couple of months ago, with little success. I have compiled (or helped compile) and used ICU on Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, Win32, and AIX. After some struggles MacOS and OS/2 also compiled and ran

Re: Picu: Perl wrappers for ICU

2000-12-14 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 06:01:27PM -0800, Ed Batutis wrote: > > >How easy is it currently to compile ICU itself in a non-AIX non-IBM > >environment? I attempted that a couple of months ago, with little success. > > I have compiled (or helped compile) and used ICU on Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, Win32