Re: IBM-864

[George R. <gr...@us...>]

Since you didn't say what Unicode arabic characters weren't converted, it 
would be difficult to say what went wrong.

My guess is that you are using Unicode characters that can be converted to 
windows-1256, but can't be converted to ibm-864.  These two codepages have 
different character set mappings to/from Unicode.  Many Unicode characters 
can not be represented in all codepages.  If you don't want to lose any data, my 
suggestion is to keep the data in Unicode.

If you really want to, you can see the details of the Unicode mappings for 
these codepages in the icu/data directory.  If you know what the Unicode 
characters are, you can see what a given Unicode character gets mapped 
into/from a codepage.

George Rhoten
IBM Globalization Center of Competency/ICU  Cupertino, CA, USA

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Hello,
I am a naive user  trying to convert a file from UTF-8 into the Arabic 
OS/2 codepage 864. I built  uconv.exe from icuapps and it appears to work 
fine. I can convert the file into  (windows Arabic) codepage 1256 and it 
looks OK. However when I try to  convert to ibm-864 it gives me just 7F 
everywhere an Arabic caharacter  appears.
I am running on a  Windows 2000 system with ICU 1.8 installed. Am I doing 
something  wrong?
 
Thanks for any  help.
 
Harold  Putman
 
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