hi all,
before few months i tried to write a utility that will extract a particluar data from a file -- file is with arabic/non english words or chracters in visual Basic on Microsot Platform.
but then i realise that VB does not support regular expressions or unicde pattern searching.
i m new to unix. Now a days i m learning unix. and i planned to shift to linux platform.so i m trying to write this same utility in Unix. is it possible to write unicode base extraction ? or using unicode regular expression?
can u suggest me some links or books for study?
can anybody guide me for same?
Thanks a lot for your time
Regards,
Swapneel
Hi
no one??? i wonder.
is it possible to work on unicode in unix? or not??
strange...
PHP and Perl will do Unicode text processing. Of course, Unicode regexp is supported. They are platform indepedent, sort of, so you can expect Unicode text processing on Linux. But I can't speak for certain, especially with Arabic because I don't know Arabic, and I don't know if Arabic is well supported or not, but I do quite a lot of Unicode text processing with Perl with mainly Chinese and things seem to do quite well.
The best bet is you do some testing yourself. People who don't know the language can't help with your testing.
As a reminder, please do not hasten others just because you would like to get your question answered fast. This is not an online help desk. Most people do not visit the forums every a few hours (or minutes) so do not expect your post will be seen too soon.
For instance, with Perl you may find this useful.
hi cbkihong,
soory for excepting urgent response
"so do not expect your post will be seen too soon."
i will not do this again. i m new to this foroum.
but franlky i m visiting this foroum for every hour
I will read your link. and get back to you.
then plz reply ..
Regards,
Swapneel