From: Philipp Gesang <gesang@stud.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: UTF conversion via Lua
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:57:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120210105732.GA30993@phlegethon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.v9gkf0jwtpjj8f@lpr>
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On 2012-02-10 11:22, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have many files with ASCII encoding; this encoding must be kept as these files are processed also by another program.
>
> When I work with them in ConTeXt, I need to convert them to UTF.
Not needed, as every ASCII string is a valid UTF8 string:
“The UTF encoding has several good properties. By far the most
important is that a byte in the ASCII range 0-127 represents
itself in UTF. Thus UTF is backward compatible with ASCII.”
http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/utf
You can use them in Luatex without further conversion.
Regards
Philipp
>
> Does Lua (in ConTeXt scope) offer a transformation function or a table of chars [ASCII-code] -> [UTF-code] or anything to provide the conversion?
>
> Something like:
>
> \startluacode
> local str = loadFile("a.txt") -- ASCII coded
>
> str = context.ACSII2UTF(str) -- Or something like this
> \stopluacode
>
> Best regards,
>
> Lukas
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-10 10:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-10 10:22 Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2012-02-10 10:26 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2012-02-10 10:57 ` Philipp Gesang [this message]
2012-02-10 11:11 ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2012-02-10 11:14 ` luigi scarso
2012-02-13 11:42 ` Ulrike Fischer
2012-02-13 13:14 ` luigi scarso
2012-02-10 11:15 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-02-10 11:32 ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2012-02-10 12:25 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-02-10 13:15 ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2012-02-10 15:08 ` Hans Hagen
2012-02-16 11:13 ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2012-02-16 12:08 ` Hans Hagen
2012-02-16 13:15 ` UTF conversion via Lua (renaming attachments to .scr_) Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
[not found] ` <op.v9rwejuttpjj8f@lpr>
2012-02-16 22:56 ` Hans Hagen
2012-02-17 8:09 ` UTF conversion via Lua Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2012-02-17 8:19 ` Hans Hagen
2012-02-17 9:20 ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2012-02-10 11:40 ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2012-02-10 11:30 ` Philipp Gesang
2012-02-10 11:13 ` UTF conversion via Lua (now with attachment) Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
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