[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: [liblouis] r715 committed - the last batch of files converted to utf-8.
- From: "Vic Beckley" <vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 15:24:46 -0400
Mesar,
OK, I think I understand now. Part of the problem is that I was using Nano
and it must not support UTF-8. One problem, though, when I check the
trademark symbol with Window-Eyes and NVDA they tell me it is Unicode 99 or
ox99. Why is this different than the \x2132 you mentioned?
Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,
Vic
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Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: [liblouis] r715 committed - the last
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Hi Vic,
On Tue 03/07/12,12:16, Vic Beckley wrote:
> So in my example of the trademark symbol, which shows up as a^ in UTF-8,
No, it should not show up as a followed by a caret symbol, it should simply
be the trademark symbol itself.
open the file with notepad plus plus,.
> how
> would you correctly write this using the \xhhhh format? If you were
writing
> the table and wanted to define this symbol using UTF-8,
> how would you find out what it was.
Just a small correction, \xhhhh or sometimes also written as u+hhhh is
called the unicode code point of the symbol.
then how this is stored on the computer, is called the encoding.
so utf7, utf8, utf16 and utf32 are all different computer formats for
encoding unicode, and are related to how many bytes
are used for the minimal representation of each codepoint.
For a more detailed explenation, please have a look on wikipedia, both at
"unicode", "utf8" etc.
So to your question:
if you use a screenreader, your screenreader probably has a shortcut key for
telling you the codepoint of the character your cursor is
currently standing on.
For nvda and orca, in desktop layout, this is the numpad 2, pressed three
quick times.
for example orca is telling me trademark, 2122
If you are using a braille display and the character is not defined in your
current table, you will see \x2122
If you were a sighted table writer, you probably have to go to the online
unicode standard, and look in the long list of characters for the
\xhhhh representation for the character you wanted.
hope this helps,
Mesar
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