non-latin letters

COOLY · Post by **COOLY** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 12:19 pm

I have been using alot of tcls, but one main problem is always facing me which is using letters that are not latin (i use arabic). These letters are always not desplayed correctly which made the script not running well, such as trivia.( i am dying to run this script in arabic)
any suggestions? or have anyone expreinced it? plz help me

Post by **user** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 8:48 pm

What encoding are you using for the files with arabic content?
What locale are you using on the shell your eggdrop is running from?

COOLY · Post by **COOLY** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 5:40 am

Thanx for responding
well, i didn't understand what u mean by encoding and locale. Sorry i am a newbie

COOLY · Post by **COOLY** » Sat Jul 05, 2003 5:16 pm

any hints?

stdragon · Post by **stdragon** » Sat Jul 05, 2003 6:18 pm

Encoding = utf-8, utf-16, ascii, iso-8559-1 (western), etc. In other words, what "character set" are you using?

stdragon · Post by **stdragon** » Sat Jul 05, 2003 6:22 pm

Well on mozilla it looks like arabic is set as iso-8859-6, so that's probably what you're using. One suggestion I have is to make the script read the file in binary mode (use fconfigure).

COOLY · Post by **COOLY** » Sun Jul 06, 2003 2:30 pm

Yeah Its ISO 8859-6
Could u give me an example in of how to put it in a script?