On 4/27/13 6:37 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2013-04-27 00:09, Tyro[17] wrote:
There are myriad encoding schemes. D natively supports Unicode and
provide functionality via phobos. A byproduct of this is that since
ASCII is a subset of Unicode, it also natively support ASCII. This is a
plus for the language but what of the other encoding schemes? What
library functionality is provided to manipulate or convert between those
encoding schemes and Unicode?
I have a need to convert from CKJ encoding (presently EUC-JP and
Shift-JIS) to Unicode. How do I accomplish this using D/Phobos? Is there
a standalone library that does this? If so, can someone point me to it?
If not, is there planned functionality for inclusion in phobos or am I
doomed to resorting to Java or some other language to accomplish this
task (or at least until I'm educated enough to do it myself)?
Would ICU do the work? If that's the case you can take a look at this:
https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/com.ibm.icu
I will most likely not compile with the latest version of DMD. Also I
don't know how complete it is.
This might work. Not sure yet. The first thing that caught my eyes is
import java.lang.all;
import java.math.BigInteger;
import java.text.CharacterIterator;
import java.text.ParsePosition;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.Date;
and I was immediately confused. What? We can directly import and use
Java in D? Let me try this... Oh! No! Not really! We can't. Well, since
D uses the file system to organize its files, I should be able to find a
java folder with these classes signatures or the D equivalent somewhere
in the project folder. No... I don't see one anywhere. Looks like I will
have to file ICU on my list of things to get educated about. For now I
will continue to use the Java implementation I've got. Thanks.
