ISIRI-3342 converter broken

Roozbeh Pournader roozbeh@sina.sharif.ac.ir
Mon Jul 31 08:30:00 GMT 2000


On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Bruno Haible wrote:

> The iconv converter module for ISIRI-3342 is broken: In the char -> Unicode
> direction, it does not convert 0x80 to U+0000, as described in the charmap.
> And the Unicode -> char conversion is completely broken, because the script
> to generate the .h file from the charmap cannot cope with the non-injective
> mapping: the from_ucs4 table contains extraneous elements. Here is a fix.

BTW, full ISIRI-3342 <-> Unicode needs applying the Unicode bidirectional
algorithm, since the bidi character classes are different. If only I can
find the time, ...

--roozbeh




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