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Re: [MacPerl] ASCII-Translations
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 14:17:14 +0100, apeiros wrote:
>Thank you very much! I need it specialy for german chars like ä, ö and ü
>(ä ö and ü in HTML lingo) to perform a correct search through
>a database on a website.
Oh. In that case, you might find it interesting that representation of
such characters through numeric entities, is through Unicode. For
example, that "left double quotation mark" that I used earlier as an
example, 0x201C, may be represented as "“" or as "“" (8220
== 0x201C). The "tm" symbol, 0xAA in Mac-Roman, and 0x99 in Windows, is
0x2122 in Unicode, thus "™" or "&8482;" using numerical entities.
It's all in those tables. So these table files form a cheap and lazy way
to properly encode these special characters.
--
Bart.
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