Re: Arabic-utf-8 (plus a sample)

[Idris Samawi Hamid <ishamid@colostate.edu>]

On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 23:48:18 +0200, Thomas A. Schmitz 
<thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> Just a quick reply (it's bedtime over here): there may be 2 problems.

Ok, get some sleep;-) Anyhow, I fixed the line break (is the space between 
tilda and `s' correct?)

==============================
$_ =~ s/\x{0627}/\x{0041}/esg;
#this is the actual conversion
==============================

did not work though:-(

My perl version is v5.6.1; I went to the ActivePerl
website and the only version they had is
v5.6.1.638; so from perl.org I found Indigoperl and switched;-)

This solves part of the problem:-) Now I get

> perl utf2tex.pl unicode-utf.txt
syntax error at utf2tex.pl line 8, near ");"
Execution of utf2tex.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

line 8 is

while (<>); { #this opens the file for reading

Here is the whole file once again:

==================================
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use open ':utf8';

open(NEW,">new.tex"); #opens file to print out the result

while (<>); { #this opens the file for reading

$_ =~ s/\x{0627}/\x{0041}/esg;
#this is the actual conversion

print NEW "$_";
#and this writes the result into file "new.tex"
}

close(NEW);
==================================

> the usage is right (I'm not a windows person,

If WinEdt (and some other things) worked under WINE, I would not be a 
windows person either:-(

And will attempt yet another switch (I've lost count) to Linux-KDE 
sometime this Summer...

Thnx a million
Idris

-- 
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523