Andrew Cunningham wrote:
> >
> > Andrew also mentioned custom (8-bit) code pages, which are widely
> > used...
>
> actually i don't think they're widely used.
Widely used in general rather than any specific custom code
page use.
> But I'd rather not get into Sudanese politics at the moment.
>
You are wise.
>
> One of the areas that has interested me for a while is teh area of langauge
> retention among refugee communities.
>
With the internet, dispersed communities may be able to
preserve languages which might have formerly become extinct
due to isolation.
> philosophically I'd prefer not to use the PUA.
Many people share a distaste for the PUA.
> ... I've
> seen a number of utilities that allow you to convert between unicode and a
> range of defined character sets and encodings, but I haven't found a utility
> that does this and that would allow you to easily construct custom mapping
> tables to use with it as well.
>
> If anyone is aware of such a tool, I'd be interested in hearing about it.
>
This looks promising:
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/tooldocs/win32/native2ascii.html
Best regards,
James Kass.
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