Hi, Although there are some characters that is used in PRC only, or Taiwan only etc, to determine Traditional/ Simplified Chinese or Vietnamese, taking single codepoint is not enough. Usually a string with finite length should be used, but, still it is not definitive. I suppose, glib designer doesn't want glib to include non-definitive script-guessing algorithms, so, I think using other libraries might be better. Possibly fontconfig's script detection algorithm might be something informative, although often I find posts from Chinese people who complains unexpected results.
BTW, for Vietnamese script (Chu-Han & Chu-Nom), I'm not sure if pre-Unicode encodings are used in popular. For example, TCVN 5773:1993 looks like a characterset of intersection between Chu-Han and (exisiting) CJK Unified Ideographs in BMP, I think it is not good characterset to use as a character encoding for Vietnamese script. Regards, mpsuzuki Gaurav Jain wrote: > Hi, > > I need to find out the Script code for a given Unicode string. I > found the API g_unichar_get_script() available in GLIB 2.10 which does > this, but this doesn't seem to have support for Chinese script. For > e.g., is it possible to find out if the given character falls under > Traditional Chinese or Simplified Chinese code range? Similarly for > Vietnamese? > > Is there any other API available in GLIB that I can use to determine > the best encoding/script for a given text? > > Thanks, > Gaurav > _______________________________________________ > gtk-i18n-list mailing list > gtk-i18n-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-i18n-list _______________________________________________ gtk-i18n-list mailing list gtk-i18n-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-i18n-list
