Re: [q-lang-users] More Unicode queries.

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

John Cowan wrote:
> In particular, the W3C has just released a draft set of unified
> character entities from XHTML, MathML, and the ISO sets: see the draft at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xml-entity-names-20071214/ and the unified
> list at http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/2007/w3centities-f.ent .

Ok, this is in cvs now. I also made available a tarball (snapshot of
current cvs) in testing:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=96881&package_id=188958


Here's the blurb from the manual:

   As of version 7.11 and later, the interpreter also supports symbolic
character escapes of the form `\&NAME;', where NAME is any of the XML
single character entity names specified in the "XML Entity definitions
for Characters", see `http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/'. Note
that, at the time of this writing, this is still a W3C working draft,
so the supported entity names may be subject to change until the final
specification comes out; the currently supported entities are described
in the draft from 14 December 2007, see
`http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xml-entity-names-20071214/'. Also note
that multi-character entities are _not_ supported in this
implementation.


Examples (make sure you set your email client to UTF-8 encoding if this
comes out garbled):

==> "Gr\äf"
"Gräf"

==> "Gr\&junk;f"
! Invalid character escape in string constant
>>> "Gr\&junk;f"
       ^

==> puts "The greek letter \&phgr; is the 21st letter in the Greek
alphabet.\n"
The greek letter φ is the 21st letter in the Greek alphabet.
()


Enjoy, and please let me know if there's anything that doesn't appear to
work right.

Cheers,
Albert

-- 
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
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