Re: [icu-support] icu-support Digest, Vol 2, Issue 36

[Gisle F. <GFo...@ac...>]

Hi all,

I have a question that involves the converter.
I use ICU 3.4 and I create a converter using:

	x-iscii-ta (iscii Tamil)

Apparently this works ok, as when I use the converter to go from UChar =
(UTF-16LE) to this, I get:

	U+0BAE translated to 0xEF 0x44 0x3f

When I go the other way around, using the very same converter but going =
back to UChar with the symbol that was just translated, I get '?'.

	0xEF 0x44 0x3f translates to '?'

The funny thing with this, is that the converter reports no error, and =
no callback takes action.

Can anyone explain to me why this is? I have read that the iscii =
encoding to some extent has overlap, does this mean that the converter =
just cannot translate some symbols, like for instance this one.

Or, is it that I should rather use one of these names:

ISCII,version=3D8
ISCII,version=3D7
ISCII,version=3D6
ISCII,version=3D5
ISCII,version=3D4
ISCII,version=3D3
ISCII,version=3D2
ISCII,version=3D1
ISCII,version=3D0

Any feedback appreciated.

Regards,

Gisle
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