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Re: Converting certain characters from Unicode to ASCII
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Re: Converting certain characters from Unicode to ASCII


  • Subject: Re: Converting certain characters from Unicode to ASCII
  • From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 18:11:43 -0700

You're probably going to run into some other issues too; long and short dashes, non-breaking spaces, etc. You might need to make a substitution table.

On Jul 6, 2005, at 6:17 PM, Steve Palmer wrote:

So search and replacing the smart quotes is the way to go then.

Thanks!
- Steve



On Jul 6, 2005, at 6:45am, Clark Cox wrote:


On 7/6/05, Steve Palmer <email@hidden> wrote:


Hopefully a quick question. What is the recommended way to convert
the Unicode character 0x2019 which is an apostrophe to the ASCII
equivalent which is 0x0027? The string has to be down-converted for 7-
bit ASCII transmission and loss of some unconvertable characters is
acceptable but the apostrophe is one that I'd expect should be
convertable. I've tried:


     NSData * textData = [[textView string] dataUsingEncoding:
NSASCIIStringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];

with a variety of different encoding types but none of them get me
the right ASCII character. At the very least I can do a search and
replace but I'd like to make sure that I've not missed anything obvious.




The only thing that you've missed is that U+2019 is *not* equivalent to U+27. :) That is, Unicode does not define any decomposition (compatibility or otherwise) from U+2019 to U+0027.

--
Clark S. Cox III
email@hidden
http://clarkcox3.livejournal.com/
http://homepage.mac.com/clarkcox3/



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