How to Get a Char from his name ?

See this question

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/343716/how-to-write-in-arabic-in-unity-.html (But that is more about displaying it on the screen)

and http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Components/class-Font.html it has a section about Unicode support

I do not understand what you mean by from his name. Do you mean getting a character from a string?

Thank you for your comment :)

Yeah that's it : Each character has a 'name' : http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFB50.pdf

And I wanted to know if it was possible to get the good character from the string (maybe I should create my own dictionary from these lists (look at ranges : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet ))

For RTL Converter, i've already seen it, I wanted to try something before buying it, but it's not expensive, so I think I will buy it..

Edit : (no i don't want to convert a one-letter string to a char :p)

 #pragma strict
 
 
 function Start () {
     var txt : Text$$anonymous$$esh = GetComponent(Text$$anonymous$$esh);
     var rawString : String = "ææå أنا العبارة العربية";
     var endString : String = "";
     var utfInt : int;
     
     for (ch in rawString){
         utfInt = System.Convert.ToInt32(ch);
         endString += Char.ConvertFromUtf32(utfInt);
         Debug.Log(utfInt.ToString()+" "+ Char.ConvertFromUtf32(utfInt) );
     }
     
     txt.text = endString; 
 }

Did some testing, this worked for me. I can not verify how the Arabic text turned out. But the letters æøå I am familiar with.

I made this by using the examples at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ww9t2871.aspx and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.char.convertfromutf32.aspx

If I am way off here, I apologize. And hope someone can give a better answer.

I also found a free package that might be worth a look into http://u3d.as/content/abdullah-konash/unity-arabic-support/2B8

Don't worry, thanks for your answers :)

I've tested Char.ConvertFromUtf32 before to print the characters I have in my font, and it worked.

But my goal is to get these characters from their name (not code) in order to give the initial/medial/final or isolated forms to the characters (the names seems to have a little standard, that's why I wanted to use them)

I will buy the library, it will be better, but I keep the question open if someone has an idea :)

I think the solution is to create our own dictionary, or to find one..