| Note: now has error messages, see root.txt.. more submissions wanted! |
| For now, we're just using OS level error messages for file access |
| email them to: srl@jtcsv.com thanks! |
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| uconv |
| ===== |
| |
| uconv demonstration example of ICU and codepage conversion. |
| The purpose is to be a replacement tool for the UNIX iconv program, and |
| to show how to use the class UnicodeConverterCPP. |
| |
| Compiling |
| ========= |
| |
| See the README in the parent (icuapps) directory. |
| |
| Running |
| ======= |
| |
| uconv converts files from one encoding to another. Just type uconv and it |
| will tell you the usage. It works similar to the iconv found in UNIX98 |
| compliant systems. |
| |
| TESTING uconv |
| ============= |
| |
| In the utf8 and charset directories you can find some texts, which you can use to test uconv |
| with. In the charset directory you can find texts encoded in different codepages. |
| Not all the codepages are supported by uconv yet, i.e. no euc* are supported. |
| |
| Note on running the example in Linux/UNIX (1999) |
| ================================================ |
| |
| The i18n support in Linux isn't as good as it should be, so to display other |
| than ISO-8859-x on your console means problems. But there is much work in |
| progress to eliminate this. In the meantime, please have a look at the |
| "UTF8 and Unicode FAQ for UNIX/Linux": http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html |
| |
| To be able to display Unicode characters from far-away languages |
| you need a suitable font. The easiest is to use Roman Czyborra's free unicode |
| font. The font is not beautiful, but useful for testing purposes. Have a look at: |
| "Proposal for GNU Unicode font" http://czyborra.com/unifont/. This is |
| not a TrueType font so it won't work in Windows and on Macs. |
| |
| |
| Note on TMAKE (and those strange *.pro files) |
| ============================================= |
| |
| Maybe you noticed the *.pro file. This is a source-file for the |
| Makefile-generator tmake, which was written by Troll Tech. |
| It works in both UNIX and Windows, but you need to have Perl |
| installed. More information can be found on |
| http://www.troll.no/freebies/tmake.html. |
| Usage: tmake uconv.pro > Makefile |
| |
| Hope this will get you going with the ICU library |
| |
| Jonas Utterstrรถm <jonas.utterstrom@vittran.norrnod.se> |
