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Re: Unicode Question [message #46886 is a reply to message #46876]

Fri, 06 January 2006 13:30

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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grunes@yahoo.com writes:

> 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.

Yeah, that's kinda what I thought, too. But I'm not so sure
it is as simple as this anymore. :-)

But I am handicapped by not having the actual file, too.
I really was just wondering if anyone had any experience
with this. My suggestions are still resulting in a lot of
*&%^$ type of nonsense.

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Unicode Question By: mitch grunes on Sat, 07 January 2006 21:40
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		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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