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Fwd: Re: Fwd: Qtrans - my hebrew failure



I think some of our experts should talk about it with mr. Matteo Merli :)

Subject: Re: Fwd: Qtrans - my hebrew failure
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:50:01 +0000
From: Matteo Merli <merlim@libero.it>
To: yoavbo@netvision.net.il


On Tuesday 20 February 2001 09:07, you wrote:
> i tried checking i could make qtrans show hebrew properly, out of the
> english-to-hebrew dictionary file. walking across the source code with a
> debugger revealed no meaningful data. i was assuming that using several
> words that use common letters would reveal some pattern. i also tried
> reading in the data 2 bytes at a time (i.e. unicode?) - to no avail.

hi, i've tried to read 16bit data me too... but don't seems right...
now, i'm working to rewrite the library using qt library (that fully support
unicode)
the strange thing is that i've tried to translate 'linux' and with italian
dic appear the word 'UNIX', with hebrew dic appear 'XINU' .. so it's right
(with latin1 chars).. maybe the way could be to add a binary mask to
translate chars to unicode..
i'm looking at conversion tables from isoxxx to unicode.. but the data
extracted from dics seems not right...

> i checked another program (don't remember its name) - it uses the exact
> same alrogithm to decipher the dictionary files, so has the same problem.
>
> perhaps someone with some background in cryptography could try having a
> look at the output and find how the hebrew data is stored?

i don't know anyone.. but i think that the last resource is to try to
disassemble Babylon and understand how it extract data

bye,
matteo

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