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Re: Unicode Question [message #46887 is a reply to message #46886]

Fri, 06 January 2006 13:16

mitch grunes
Messages: 6
Registered: November 1999

Junior Member

First, you might look at

http://www.unicode.org

to see what unicode codes are.

Don't forget that some people write the ASCII subset in 8 bits, others
include a null byte to make it 16.

Open and read an 8 bit code to the file in the usual way:
a=string(0b) & b=a
openr,1,'yourfilename'
readu,1,a

Then if a is 0, drop it. If not, and it is a legit ASCII char, rather
than one of the Unicode prefixes, as you can determine from its range,
the character is string(a). else
readu,1,b
and the character will be in string
string([a,b])
Of course, that string is two bytes long - which is right for Unicode.

I haven't checked this out, as I don't have a licensed IDL where I am
now, but it should work. I'll let you figure out the prefix codes.

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		Re: Unicode Question By: mitch grunes on Sat, 07 January 2006 21:40
		Re: Unicode Question By: R.Bauer on Sat, 07 January 2006 14:57
		Re: Unicode Question By: David Fanning on Fri, 06 January 2006 13:30
		Re: Unicode Question By: mitch grunes on Fri, 06 January 2006 13:16

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