[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Unicode encoding of tables
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 08:24:04 -0500
I think there is some confusion of terms here. We seem to be saying
UTF-8 when we mean escape sequences.
John
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 02:15:55PM +0100, Mesar Hameed wrote:
> On Fri 08/06/12,14:01, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > I believe it might be that the encoding of the file should be UTF-8.
> > Therefore if it is encoded using something like latin1 and contains a
> > character above 128 it will need to be re-encoded into UTF-8.
>
> Yes, exactly.
>
> > May be I have got it wrong, using escape sequences have the advantage they
> > can be typed easily regardless of keyboard layout, but they can
> > make it harder to read (I am split on that one as to which I prefer).
>
> liblouis commands should all be in ascii at the moment, so those beyond 127
> should be represented with \xABCD.
> The file itself should be utf-8 encoded, so that names, comments etc can be
> written in a natural way.
> These two statements are distinctly different and we need to make sure table
> writers dont confuse the matter, which seems to have happend with
> the broken tables.
>
> Thanks,
> Mesar
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