From: jeremiah (jeremiah@nur.net)
Date: Thu Dec 01 2005 - 13:41:32 EST
These may be UNICODE, or they may be not. That is a big assumption. Arabic
has at least two ASCII style encodings that I have heard of. There is ASMO,
which works like ASCII, but encodes non-latin characters. There is another
system similar to this, I cannot recall its na er%20conversion">pen-test@securityfocus.com
> Subject: Re: ASCII to Arabic character conversion
>
> Peter,
>
> I wanted to add a couple things here. Firstly, its impossible to
> represent arabic in ASCII, each byte only has a max value of 255, and
> all of the possible values have been has already been assigned values.
> With that said you are most likely looking at something in unicode
> format. I realize its semantics, but its important as you try to
> convert it.
>
> With that said, are you wanting to translate it to english? I don't
> know of an automated tool that can do this other than perhaps
> babelfish or the likes.
>
> Additionally, I don't think its possible to convert it to ASCII, and
> even if it was I believe it would be useless gibberish. The best
> option most likely is then, from a programatic standpoint, is not to
> convert anything, but rather just handle each multibyte/widebyte
> character as a single character.
>
> If you are simply wanting to translate to english, then conversion of
> encodings is trivial/pointless.
>
> The final option, if you want to convert it to ASCII or similar is to
> transliterate each character and then convert them to ASCII as you go,
> I'm not sure how you would do this in a programmatic manner without an
> in-depth knowledge of the language.
>
> So in conclusion, you really need to be more specific about what you
> are trying to accomplish-- and chances are without translation to
> english or transliteration, you are SOL.
>
> If you want to give just straight encoding format conversions, you can
> try the iconv program, assuming you are on a posix compliant platform.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Justin F.
>
> On 12/1/05, P. Entester <pentest__@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello again,
> >
> > In the same capture as my previous post, all the answers are in Arabic.
> >
> > So, i have ACSII representatation of Arabic characters, representing
> cell
> > data, that i need to translate.
> >
> > Is anyone here aware of a tool or a method to assist me in this?
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> >
> > Peter Entester.
> >
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