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Title: Question about Arabic Language Support in Code::Blocks
Post by: simodz40 on November 28, 2024, 09:28:46 pm

Hello everyone, 8)
I am using Code::Blocks version 20.03 and I am facing some issues with supporting Arabic characters in my program. I would like to know the best ways to ensure that my program supports Arabic characters correctly. Could you please help me

Title: Re: Question about Arabic Language Support in Code::Blocks
Post by: MehdiChinoune on November 29, 2024, 04:49:00 pm

Quote from: simodz40 on November 28, 2024, 09:28:46 pm

Hello everyone, 8)
I am using Code::Blocks version 20.03 and I am facing some issues with supporting Arabic characters in my program. I would like to know the best ways to ensure that my program supports Arabic characters correctly. Could you please help me

What do you mean?
CodeBlocks is just an IDE.
I assume you are programming in C++, if so then It's something related to the C++ compiler and the encoding you use to write your program. It's recommended to use UTF8 encoding as It supports wide range of writing systems.
Some Terminals/Consoles don't support no-ascii/no-Latin characters. so you should choose a suitable terminal.

Title: Re: Question about Arabic Language Support in Code::Blocks
Post by: stahta01 on November 29, 2024, 05:41:47 pm

https://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php/FAQ-General#Q:_What_Code::Blocks_is_not.3F (https://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php/FAQ-General#Q:_What_Code::Blocks_is_not.3F)

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Code::Blocks is not a compiler, nor a linker. Release packages of Code::Blocks may include a compiler suite (MinGW/GCC), if not provided by the target platform already. However, this is provided "as-is" and not developed/maintained by the Code::Blocks development team.

Title: Re: Question about Arabic Language Support in Code::Blocks
Post by: everSome on January 25, 2025, 12:11:21 am

I think you are in for a steep learning curve. Code::Blocks itself uses wxWidgets to implement its GUI. You could also use it if need be. In addition, the Font used to display your Arabic script may well make a difference. A quick look at Unicode Blocks that mention Arabic shows:

Arabic                                  0600
Arabic Supplement                       0750
Arabic Extended-B                       0870
Arabic Extended-A                       08A0
Arabic Presentation Forms-A             FB50
Arabic Presentation Forms-b             FE70
Arabic Extended-C                      10EC0
Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols 1EE00

Note that any code points at or above 10000 will force the usage of surrogate pairs when using UTF-16, as Unicode uses 21 bits to denote code points. You might want to look at the following:

wxWidgets Unicode support: https://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.2/overview_unicode.html (https://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.2/overview_unicode.html)
Unicode Design Principals: https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode16.0.0/core-spec/chapter-2/#G128 (https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode16.0.0/core-spec/chapter-2/#G128)
International Components for Unicode: https://icu.unicode.org/ (https://icu.unicode.org/)

Title: Re: Question about Arabic Language Support in Code::Blocks
Post by: everSome on February 16, 2025, 01:20:07 pm

FWIW, the NassiShneiderman plugin has a dependency on the Boost library. At least in the MSYS2 environment that I use on Microsoft Windows 10 to build Code::Blocks with the NassiShneiderman plugin, the Boost library (acquired via "pacman -S --noconfirm --needed mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-boost-libs") will have already pulled in the ICU library (otherwise acquired via "pacman -S --noconfirm --needed mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-icu") as it is a dependency. Note: only use the --needed option if you know you MSYS2 environment is already otherwise up to date.