Introducing Unicode Converter Project

[Nasser Hajloo]

hi experts,
as I asked some questions about the keyboard layout standards and
sayed that I need these information for a FOSS project soI publish the
projec on codeplex

Unicode Converter is a free open source software for converting to/
from unicode and also getting information about a character.

Unicode Converter developed in c# 3.5 and provide 2 variant user
interfaces, one for windows with WPF and one with Asp.net for Web.

WPF version is going to finish but web interface do not (start)
complete yet.

so I ask you for checking the application and suggest your idea
also any help to contribute in project will apprecite.
and again I ask you to complete the Standrads.XML document provided in
this project

Project URL
http://unicode.codeplex.com

regards
Nasser Hajloo

[Ehsan Akhgari]

I think at least part of your project clashes with the scope of several other free software projects, such as iconv, recode and ICU (and probably others).  Have you checked these out, to see if you can use them in your project?

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[Nasser Hajloo]

> I think at least part of your project clashes with the scope of several
> other free software projects, such as iconv, recode and ICU (and probably
> others).  Have you checked these out, to see if you can use them in your
> project?

honestly I should say I wasn't familier with these appliction (but
recode) and thank you for these links

about ICU i should say that t is a C/C++ , Java API and I want to
provide a C# (though for a foss project it is better to be non dot net
platform)

ICONV and RECODE as I underestand use for convert a characterset to
another

so I think my projct will completethese application and It is a good
recommandation thatI use these api's into my project

yesterday I found a wonderfull unicoe character libray (i twitted
address in my twitter - http://twitter.com/hajloo) now I want to use
this wonderfull ibrary in my project in next level I'll use Recode or
ICONV to convert various chractersets to each other.

if you knowsome other usefull application that may help, will
appriciate

Regards Nasser Hajloo

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 12/10/2009 01:38 AM, Nasser Hajloo wrote:
>
> yesterday I found a wonderfull unicoe character libray (i twitted
> address in my twitter - http://twitter.com/hajloo) now I want to use
> this wonderfull ibrary in my project in next level I'll use Recode or
> ICONV to convert various chractersets to each other.

Do you mean the Unicode Character Database? That's what I find in your
tweets. That's indeed the *source* data for pretty much any system supporting
Unicode.

I can suggest more if you tell us exactly what you mean by "converting to/from
unicode". That's indeed what iconv/recode/icu/... do. As for information
about characters, again, that's also something icu does. Also applications
like gucharmap and unibook. Also this web app:

http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/uniview/

behdad

[Nasser Hajloo]

> Do you mean the Unicode Character Database?

exactly

> I can suggest more if you tell us exactly what you mean by "converting to/from
> unicode".  That's indeed what iconv/recode/icu/... do.  As for information
> about characters, again, that's also something icu does.  Also applications
> like gucharmap and unibook.  Also this web app:
>
>    http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/uniview/
>

the above link was a good sample like what I implement, I write a
short about on my blog at:

http://hajloo.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/open-source-unicode-converter/

any similar tools and api to use appriciated,

and still looking for a list of Standard Keyboard Layout to put in
application (look at http://unicode.codeplex.com or short about
description)

Unicode Character Database that is available in XML format with
complete information for each character used to show characters
information in my project, and also let me to provide some usefull
reports on software that will available ASAP.

now I'm looking for similar database that may provide extended
information about characters like special RTL or Bidirectional or etc
characters, this information provided in UCD with some flag and a good
reporting system can provide some reports but available xml document
is prefered.