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

[Simon Pepping <spepping@scaprea.hobby.nl>]

Hmm, I just wrote my email before fetching the emails that had been
exchanged over the weekend. Not a good idea.

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:40:30PM +0100, Gour wrote:
> Hans Hagen (pragma@wxs.nl) wrote:
> 
> > >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?

I do not think the mapping files should touch utf-8. The input
mechanism should map utf-8 to unicode, and then the mapping should map
unicode to a macro. In that way the same mapping can be used by other
encodings, provided they have an input mapping to unicode.

Simon

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Simon Pepping
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