Re: LYNX-DEV U201e and U201c

[Christopher R. Maden]

[Klaus Weide]
> [ I know it's not a good reference for Unicode and wasn't meant to
> be.  Anybody want to check whether the following are still valid in
> the current standard? ]

Feverybody'sI, an excellent resource (although a bit slow) is the FTP
site ftp.dkuug.dk - I think.  My external Internet connection seems to
be down right now.  There's a link to it from the Unicode pages at
<URL:http://www.unicode.org/>.

>  '6     2018    LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
>  '9     2019    RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
>  .9     201a    SINGLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK
>  9'     201b    SINGLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK
>  "6     201c    LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
>  "9     201d    RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
>  :9     201e    DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK
>  9"     201f    DOUBLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK

These look right, though.

> For iso-8859-2 (and iso-8859-1, and most other display character
> sets), they should be mapped to the appropriate ASCII characters:
> <">, <'> and maybe <`>.
> 
> Adding the line
> 
> 0x22  U+201c U+201d U+201e U+201f
> 
> (22 is the ASCII value for <">) to the translation table
> (iso02_uni.tbl in your case) lets you read about "Fierlingerismus"
> instead of U201eFierlingerismusU201c.  Recompile (no need to `make
> clean' for this kind of change).

I might use a few more lines:

0x22  U+201c U+201d U+201e U+201f   ["]
0x27  U+2019                        [']
0x2c  U+201a                        [,]
0x60  U+2018 U+201b                 [`]

If there's a way to map a single Unicode character to more than one
ASCII character, I'd use

0x27 0x27  U+201d                   ['']
0x2c 0x2c  U+201e                   [,,]
0x60 0x60  U+201c U+201f            [``]

-Chris
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