From kde-i18n-doc Wed Mar 22 13:23:33 2000 From: Hans Petter Bieker Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:23:33 +0000 To: kde-i18n-doc Subject: Re: Tamil translation of kdelibs.po X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-i18n-doc&m=95373745817612 On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Thuraiappah Vaseeharan wrote: > The problem is the MEY characters. TSCII has separate code points for the > MEYs (ik, im etc. ) whereas in UNICODE they are encoded as two characters > (ka, pulli). So we have to add support tell recode that the MEYs will be > mapped to two Unicode bytes instead of one. That's correct, but you don't really have to fix recode to fix KDE. You can use the QTSCIICodec you will write for that. BTW: Thanks for doing this the right way. Just pretending that TSCII is ASCII would be a horrible hack. -bieker- Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Engineering Cybernetics bieker@stud.ntnu.no / bieker@kde.org