Re: [icu-support] Converting to ASCII (7 or 8 bit)

[Tony S. <ton...@gm...>]

Sorry isnt this just for character encoding conversion? I really want
to constrain my dataset to the latin 1 codepage (or a suitable one for
this windows app to render, or 7bit ASCII for freetext indexing) which
requires transliteration? I'm new to this so may well be getting
confused.

For example if I choose ISO8859-1 (or windows-1252) output encoding
for my XML, then 0x80 - 0xff characters are outputted along with the
7bit ASCII ones. However everything above this is encoded as &#ddd;
which then won't be rendered.

Thanks

Tony

On 6/29/05, Markus Scherer <mar...@gm...> wrote:
> I _think_ what you are looking for is to use an ICU converter for
> ISO-8859-1 (for example) and set the "escape" callback with the option
> of producing XML numeric character references.
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> However, please consider that Windows internally works entirely in
> Unicode, and modern Windows applications do so, too. You might find
> that you need not convert out of Unicode, and if you needn't you
> shouldn't.
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> markus
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> On 6/29/05, Tony Scerri <ton...@gm...> wrote:
> > Yes I do have XML encoded as UTF-8 (or anything encoding scheme).
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