I think there's an even larger question than the technical implementation, in summary: Should the translation be "accurate" or should it be "useful"?
Officially, I believe there is a precise one-to-one relationship between ASCII and Unicode, but there are dozens of Unicode characters that "look like" each ASCII character. In my UNI2ASCI program (included with my USB drivers) the translation tables, perhaps, go overboard. If it receives a UniCode character that looks (to me) to be close enough to one of the ASCII characters, or a "string" of ASCII characters, that I think it can be "reasonably" represented on screen, it gets translated. UNI2ASCI only translates one way (UniCode to ASCII), only works with Code Page 437, and is not one-to-one (a single UniCode character may be translated into a "string" of ASCII characters). Keeping this type of translation table totally in memory is probably impractical because of the amount of memory that would be needed. However, I think this type of translation should at least be an option available to the user. *** >From a technical perspective, you will also at a minimum need to concern yourself with translating strings vs. translating single characters (UniCode strings can/should include an Endian-defining character at the beginning, as well as needing to define how the length of the string is determined), UTF-8 vs. UTF-16 vs. UTF-32, and Big- vs. Little-endian. None of this is trivial, and I think this is WAY too complicated to be in the kernel -- it should be a separate program/driver. Bret -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/ASCII-to-unicode-table-tp30317777p30335092.html Sent from the FreeDOS - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
