Am 14.09.2013 um 19:16 schrieb john Culleton : > On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 17:42:42 +0200 > Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > >> >> Am 14.09.2013 um 15:34 schrieb john Culleton : >> >>> Excellent! Now in MKIV how would I encode an opening quote mark >>> American style? In previous TeX programs it was always ``. The MKIV >>> substitute \quotation{foo} >>> is not practical for my application, where the raw input code >>> may use the ditto mark " for both opening and closing quotes. I am >>> looking for something in MKIV equivalent to \char92 in plain TeX. On >>> the unicode table I find the hex value 008013 but I don't know how >>> to plug that in to a macro that redefines the first occurrence of " >>> to be that character, and the second occurrence to be hex 000814 >>> etc. I can write the macro, I just need the expression equivalent >>> to \char that gives me such characters in MKIV. >> >> Are you sure these are the correct values? >> >> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/8013/index.htm >> >> >> What’s wrong with \char? >> >> \starttext >> >> \char"201C TEXT\char"201D >> >> \utfchar{"201C}TEXT\utfchar{"201D} >> >> \fontchar{quotedblleft}TEXT\fontchar{quotedblright} >> >> \stoptext >> >> Wolfgang > > Well you answered my question. The chart I read for unicode characters > gave the values I quoted. I guess I was reading the wrong chart. What > chart do you use? - http://www.unicode.org/charts/ - http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf - http://www.decodeunicode.org/ - http://www.decodeunicode.org/u+201C - http://www.typografie.de/product_info.php?products_id=1409&language=en Wolfgang