Re: Trouble with Unicode text
Re: Trouble with Unicode text
- Subject: Re: Trouble with Unicode text
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 01:26:03 +0000
On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 11:32 pm, Jeffrey Mattox wrote:
Sometimes, the string contains Greek characters, e.g., (sigma,
Option-w).
Strictly speaking that character ( ∑ or ∑ ) is not Greek
and not Sigma but
* Character Name: N-ARY SUMMATION
* Block: Mathematical Operators
Greek capital letter sigma is ̓ by the way.
When I get the input string via the text field, a sigma looks like:
log(theChar) -- "\\u2211"
log((class of theChar) as string) -- "Unicode text"
log(length of theChar) -- 1
That's the character in UTF-16 -- it's a single character but two bytes.
set theChar to "" as string
log(theChar) -- "\\u201a\\340\\353"
log((class of theChar) as string) -- "string"
log(length of theChar) -- 3
That's the UTF-8 encoding of the character, namely
option-shift-0 + small a with grave accent + small e with diaeresis
JD
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