# Space handling 0x20: ' ', 0x0D: '\n', 0x0A: '\r',

# Urdu Alphabets 0x80: 'ء', 0x81: 'آ', 0x82: 'ا', 0x83: 'ب', 0x84: 'پ', 0x85: 'ت', 0x86: 'ٹ', 0x87: 'ث', 0x88: 'ج', 0x89: 'چ', 0x8A: 'ح', 0x8B: 'خ', 0x8C: 'د', 0x8D: 'ڈ', 0x8E: 'ذ', 0x8F: 'ر', 0x90: 'ڑ', 0x91: 'ز', 0x92: 'ژ', 0x93: 'س', 0x94: 'ش', 0x95: 'ص', 0x96: 'ض', 0x97: 'ط', 0x98: 'ظ', 0x99: 'ع', 0x9A: 'غ', 0x9B: 'ف', 0x9C: 'ق', 0x9D: 'ک', 0x9E: 'گ', 0x9F: 'ل', 0xA0: 'م', 0xA1: 'ن', 0xA2: 'ں', 0xA3: 'و', 0xA4: 'ہ', 0xA5: 'ھ', 0xA6: 'ء', 0xA7: 'ی', 0xA8: 'ے',

For bulk or sensitive documents, offline software is best.

InPage is a popular desktop publishing software used for creating and editing Urdu and other right-to-left language documents. However, its proprietary file format can make it difficult to share and collaborate on documents with others. Converting InPage files to Unicode, a universal character encoding standard, can help alleviate these issues. In this article, we'll explore the importance of converting InPage to Unicode and provide a step-by-step guide on how to do it.

Here is a functional piece of code (a Python class) that handles this conversion by mapping the specific Inpage byte values to Unicode characters.

This script defines a mapping for the standard Inpage character set and translates a given string.

# Look up the byte in our mapping if byte in self.mapping: unicode_output.append(self.mapping[byte]) else: # If character is not in map, keep it as is (or substitute) try: unicode_output.append(chr(byte)) except ValueError: unicode_output.append('?') i += 1

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