On 2012-02-10 12:11, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote: > ... Well, my information was not correct. > > There are characters > 127 in the file, like "ř", "š"... > > Each char = 1 byte, and as I'm using Windows with CP 1250, the characters are > displayed correctly.
So it wasn’t ASCII after all ;-) No problem, just use iconv:
iconv -f CP1250 -t UTF8 infile > outfile
I do this a lot with movie subtitles …
Hth, Philipp
PS: If you still insist on converting at the Lua end only then
your starting point might be “regi-cp1250.lua” in the
Context base/ dir.
>
> But I have problem loading them into ConTeXt.
>
> I need to convert the bytes > 127 to UTF sequence, which would be acceptable
> by ConTeXt.
>
> @Thomas:
>
> The table looks nice but there are no entries for CP 1250 to UTF conversion.
>
> I prepared some tables: character conversion and removal of diacritics (see
> the attachment);
> maybe it would be handful to include them into ConTeXt somehow.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Lukas
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:57:32 +0100, Philipp Gesang
> <ges...@stud.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
>
> >On 2012-02-10 11:22, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I have many files with ASCII encoding; this encoding must be kept as these
> >>files are processed also by another program.
> >>
> >>When I work with them in ConTeXt, I need to convert them to UTF.
> >
> >Not needed, as every ASCII string is a valid UTF8 string:
> > “The UTF encoding has several good properties. By far the most
> > important is that a byte in the ASCII range 0-127 represents
> > itself in UTF. Thus UTF is backward compatible with ASCII.”
> > http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/utf
> >You can use them in Luatex without further conversion.
> >
> >Regards
> >Philipp
> >
> >
> >>
> >>Does Lua (in ConTeXt scope) offer a transformation function or a table of
> >>chars [ASCII-code] -> [UTF-code] or anything to provide the conversion?
> >>
> >>Something like:
> >>
> >>\startluacode
> >> local str = loadFile("a.txt") -- ASCII coded
> >>
> >> str = context.ACSII2UTF(str) -- Or something like this
> >>\stopluacode
> >>
> >>Best regards,
> >>
> >>Lukas
> >>
> >>
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