Macintosh codepages conversion

[C.G. Lee]

Hi,

 

I'd like to convert Macintosh codepages to Unicode, but I don't know what .ucm files I should use. From the convrtrs.txt, all I can guess the names for Macintosh codepages are ibm-1275,1280, 1281, 1282, 1283. How can I know, for example, which ibm-XXXXX name refers to the Macintosh Japanese codepage? And where can I find the detail descriptions about each ibm-XXXX name?

 

Thank you very much

 

CG Lee

[markus....@us.ibm.com]

Dear CG Lee,

You can see for the small set of mapping tables listed in ICU's
convrtrs.txt for which Mac encodings they are used.
I don't know which other IBM tables are for other Mac encodings including
Japanese ones. A quick check in an IBM-internal database suggests that
there is no IBM mapping table available equivalent to MacOS Japanese
encodings.

I also believe that there is no public URL for getting information about
IBM CCSID definitions - I will check with a colleague.

For non-IBM Unicode conversion tables that we have collected (see
http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/charset/) we have run small data
collection programs on the respective machines to collect actual mappings
as they are performed by the platform conversion API.
We currently do not have such a program ported for MacOS. I will contact
someone at Apple to see if we can get a collaboration on this together.
Would you be interested in working with us on such a port of the data
collection program to MacOS X?

Best regards,
markus


Markus Scherer IBM GCoC-Unicode/ICU San José, CA
markus....@us.ibm.com (also for SameTime)





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