Need for Iran System to UTF-8 converter source code
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ابراهیم محمدی
Oct 22, 2011, 2:42:41 PM10/22/11
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Salaam,
I need source code of a converter for Iran System codepage to UTF-8. Any popular target encoding which is easily convertible to UTF-8 must be enough. I searched through the Internet, but failed to find a working source code.
Do you know of such a source code?
BTW, what is the reason Iran System is not implemented in libiconv? Is it just that nobody has tried?
Regards.
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I need source code of a converter for Iran System codepage to UTF-8. Any popular target encoding which is easily convertible to UTF-8 must be enough. I searched through the Internet, but failed to find a working source code.
Do you know of such a source code?
BTW, what is the reason Iran System is not implemented in libiconv? Is it just that nobody has tried?
Regards.
--
ابراهیم محمدی
Ebrahim Mohammadi
Ebrahim Mohammadi
Behnam Esfahbod
Oct 22, 2011, 3:18:01 PM10/22/11
to ابراهیم محمدی, Persian Computing
Ebrahim,
I think the main reason that it's not implemented in iconv is the fact that Iran System encoding is a shaped-based encoding, not a letter-based one. Thus, it's not obvious how to convert it to Unicode's letter-based codes (the Arabic block, U+0600..06FF block).
By the way, if you are sure that your files are encoded in Iran System, can you share some of them with us? They can be a good resource for anyone who wants to write a converter.
Best,
-Behnam
2011/10/22 ابراهیم محمدی <ebr...@mohammadi.ir>
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ابراهیم محمدی
Oct 22, 2011, 8:58:52 PM10/22/11
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I implemented a (hacky) tool to do the conversion: http://code.ebrahim.ir/iransystem
Comments, testing, bug reports, etc. are all welcome.
Saddest part of the story was reverse order of RTL characters. For example to write سلام many old DOS application used to write byte of م first, and then ا, then ل, and finally س! Now add some LTR character sequences (like digits) to the mixture! (O_O)
The tool is put into public domain.
Comments, testing, bug reports, etc. are all welcome.
Saddest part of the story was reverse order of RTL characters. For example to write سلام many old DOS application used to write byte of م first, and then ا, then ل, and finally س! Now add some LTR character sequences (like digits) to the mixture! (O_O)
The tool is put into public domain.
2011/10/22 Behnam Esfahbod <beh...@esfahbod.info>
Behdad Esfahbod
Oct 23, 2011, 5:33:31 AM10/23/11
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On 10/22/2011 08:58 PM, ابراهیم محمدی wrote:
>
> Saddest part of the story was reverse order of RTL characters. For example to
> write سلام many old DOS application used to write byte of م first, and then ا,
> then ل, and finally س! Now add some LTR character sequences (like digits) to
> the mixture! (O_O)
>
> Saddest part of the story was reverse order of RTL characters. For example to
> write سلام many old DOS application used to write byte of م first, and then ا,
> then ل, and finally س! Now add some LTR character sequences (like digits) to
> the mixture! (O_O)
What you need is a reverse-bidi algorithm. So far, seems like, the best
reverse-bidi algorithm around is the bidi algorithm itself. You can use
FriBidi for example.
behdad
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