Edward H Trager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (about how to find Arabic country names):
> You need to download IBM's very thorough "International Components for > Unicode" library which is available under an Open Source license at: > > http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/download/2.4/index.html > > ...there is a list, among other things, of the names of countries, spelled > out fully, in that language/locale, referenced by the two-letter > abbreviations. For the "ar.txt" file, there is a list of 18 countries... > ... > The strings are in Java-style, ie: "EG { "\u0645\u0635\u0631" }". > Thanks. I wound up writing my own program to decode the strings since installing new software on Unix always leads down a rabbit hole :-) Now I have what I hope are correct Arabic names for: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. But I can't read Arabic so all I can say is that these names appear to be Arabic character strings. If anybody can check them (and/or supply others), I'd be grateful (e.g. which of the former Soviet Republics besides Tajikistan is switching over to Arabic script?) http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/postal.html#index Thanks to Edward, Roozbeh, the IBM ICU people, and others who supplied strings, pointers, and/or hints. When I have time I'll go through the other *.txt files and see what else I can pick up. - Frank
