Re: DocBookInContext & multi-languages (newbie) / utf

[Gour <gour@mail.inet.hr>]

Hans Hagen (pragma@wxs.nl) wrote:

> in xtag-utf.tex in .../tex/context/base (at least in my version and the 
> beta)

On my SuSE 8.0 I didn't find it, but fortunately it's in the beta which I
downloaded :-)

So here I see something like:

\defineUTFcharacter amacron	1  1

which corresponds to the Unicode code of amacron: U+0101 and it's according to
the output of Vim's function: "ga" which shows:

<ā> 257, Hex 0101, Octal 401.

Now, it just a question of little work to slowly populate this vector with the
values for different Unicode characters. 


> >UTF-8_and_Unicode_FAQ has some test files and I'm sure this step is not a
> >problem.
> 
> So, where can i find that doc?

The FAQ document is at: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html,
and the example files are under:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#examples

Pls. take a look http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/Unicode_transcriptions.html

under the example's list.

There is also Unicode converter: http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/convert.html

> >a) c4 81 -> amacron
> >b) 0101  -> amacron
> 
> so, c4 is the trigger, and 81 the character; this means that the function 
> attached to c4 has to map the 81 onto \amacron

I'm not sure whether c4 is the trigger for the 81 character.

c4 81 is two-byte representation in memory (that's what you'll see in some
hexadecimal editor) of Unicode amacron character with the code U+0101, or
simply said: utf-8 code for amacron :-)
  
> can you make me a file with a list like:
> 
> amacron : 01/01 : c4/c8 : <utfcode>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^
> normal ascii              real utf

So, the line for amacron should look like:

amacron	:	01/01	c4/c8

since c4/c8 is utfcode for amacron.

Is this OK?

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