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Re: Random string from selected Unicode character set (test data)

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Horst Lemminger wrote:
> I am implementing the script from generatedata.com
> 
> But I would like for it to also display Unicode chars, so I can test
> other languages.
> 
> I have looked everywhere, but can't seem to find a PHP function that
> lets me do something like
> 
> $outstring .= $make_unicode_random('katakana');
> 
> thereby selecting things from the code points U+30A0 .. U+30FF
> 
> etc
> 
I would simply make an indexed array of all the characters you want to 
select from, and then randmonly index into that.

I've done similar in the past by writing a program to write the source 
code of a large lookup table.

Sometimes the 'table' approach is just simpler (and much faster) than an 
algorithmic approach  unless you are REALLY strapped for code/static 
memory..

Which is unlikely to be the case with a typical LAMP type installation.

> The strings could be defined more broadly like "japanese" etc for
> language separation. Not important.
> 
use separate tables for each character set..

> Point is to get a string of 1..n chars of a certain language group, be
> it Greek, European accents, Japanese, Mandarin, Hangul etc
> 
> I have found a project "babel" which is a .NET application. Not sure
> if it's open sourced.
> 
> Anyone have some pointers to this project ?
> 
Not me

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To people who know too much, it is a sad fact
that they know how little is really possible -
and how hard it is to achieve it.

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Random string from selected Unicode character set (test data) Horst Lemminger <damjensen@gmail.com> - 2012-03-17 12:50 -0700
  Re: Random string from selected Unicode character set (test data) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-03-18 00:30 +0000
  Re: Random string from selected Unicode character set (test data) gordonb.9boif@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2012-03-23 00:36 -0500

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