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Re: Chinese Characters


  • Subject: Re: Chinese Characters
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 16:47:04 -0400

Some minor tweaks.

It occurs to me that the hex conversions are a little clearer if
they're parallel:

on fromHex(someValue)
    do shell script " dc <<<'16i" & someValue & "p'"
end fromHex

on toHex(someValue)
    do shell script " dc <<<'16o" & someValue & "p'"
end toHex


To do it the hard way for the "do shell script" eschewers:

on fromHex(someValue)
    set decimalValue to 0
    repeat with digit in characters of someValue
           if digit >= "a" and digit <= "f" then
                 set value to 10 + (id of digit) - (id of "a")
           else if digit >= "A" and digit <= "F" then
                 set value to 10 + (id of digit) - (id of "A")
           else
                set value to digit as integer
           end if
           set decimalValue to decimalValue * 16 + value
    end repeat
    return decimalValue
end fromHex

on toHex(someValue)
    set hexString to ""
     repeat while someValue is not 0
           set value to someValue mod 16
           set someValue to someValue div 16
           if value < 10 then
              set digit to value as text
           else
             set digit to character id (id of "A" + value - 10)
           end if
           set hexString to digit & hexString
     end repeat
     return hexString
end toHex

And I decided the Unicode blocks were more useful as records:

on findBlock(someCharacter)
    if (count UnicodeBlocks) is 0 then
        repeat with aLine in (paragraphs of (read POSIX file
"/System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/unicore/Blocks.txt"))
            if length of aLine is not 0 and text 1 of aLine is not "#" then
                set text item delimiters to "; "
                set blockRange to text item 1 of aLine
                set blockDescription to text item 2 of aLine
                set text item delimiters to ".."
                set blockStart to fromHex(text item 1 of blockRange)
                set blockEnd to fromHex(text item 2 of blockRange)
                set end of UnicodeBlocks to {rangeStart: blockStart,
rangeEnd: blockEnd, description: blockDescription}
            end
        end repeat
    end if
    set someCharacterId to id of someCharacter
    repeat with aBlock in UnicodeBlocks
        if someCharacterId >= rangeStart of aBlock and someCharacterId
<= rangeEnd of aBlock
            return aBlock as record
        end if
    end repeat
end findBlock
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