Re: [abcusers] File names

2004-04-30 Thread Paul Rosen
> Neil Jennings writes: > | > | The abc 2.0 draft has the following > | > | %%abc-charset iso-8859-1 (or other iso code) > > Well, yes, but that doesn't seem to have a well-defined scope. Does > it apply to the whole file? If I have a text that's mixed Russian and > Yiddish (not a hypothetic cas

Re: [abcusers] File names

2004-04-30 Thread John Chambers
Neil Jennings writes: | | The abc 2.0 draft has the following | | %%abc-charset iso-8859-1 (or other iso code) Well, yes, but that doesn't seem to have a well-defined scope. Does it apply to the whole file? If I have a text that's mixed Russian and Yiddish (not a hypothetic case), how do I indi

Re: [abcusers] File names

2004-04-29 Thread Neil Jennings
The abc 2.0 draft has the following %%abc-charset iso-8859-1  (or other iso code) Neil At 04:25 PM 4/29/04, you wrote: Jack Campin wrote: Would not a charset specifier be a good addition?  (if there is already such, I shall be most embarrassed... as I am pretty much every day). A rule suc

Re: [abcusers] File names

2004-04-29 Thread John Chambers
Jack Campin writes: | | One problem: what if you want to mix character sets in a tune? - | e.g. to have a Chinese song documented in English? (T: and w: | fields in Chinese, N: and D: fields in English). What I'd more likely want to do is: three T: fields (Chinese characters, pinyin, an

Re: [abcusers] File names

2004-04-29 Thread Steven Bennett
Phil Taylor wrote: > OK, I understand that. What was bothering me though, is how Steven B's > parser is going to deal with regular ascii strings which include a > space followed by a bracket. It's no problem when everything is > unicode, or everything is ascii, but if we are to have ascii abc whi

Re: [abcusers] File names

2004-04-29 Thread Christian M. Cepel
Jack Campin wrote: Would not a charset specifier be a good addition? (if there is already such, I shall be most embarrassed... as I am pretty much every day). A rule such as, if you use something specific to a charset, you must specify it otherwise expect it to be 7bit ascii and display wrongly.

Re: [abcusers] File names

2004-04-29 Thread Jack Campin
> Would not a charset specifier be a good addition? (if there is already > such, I shall be most embarrassed... as I am pretty much every day). > A rule such as, if you use something specific to a charset, you must > specify it otherwise expect it to be 7bit ascii and display wrongly. This is s

Re: [abcusers] File names

2004-04-29 Thread Christian M. Cepel
Phil Taylor wrote: On 29 Apr 2004, at 08:34, Stephen Kellett wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phil Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes On 29 Apr 2004, at 00:32, Steven Bennett wrote: According to Apple docs (I'll take their word for it... ;): 0x2028 -- Unicode line separator 0x2029 --

Re: [abcusers] File names

2004-04-29 Thread Phil Taylor
On 29 Apr 2004, at 08:34, Stephen Kellett wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phil Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes On 29 Apr 2004, at 00:32, Steven Bennett wrote: According to Apple docs (I'll take their word for it... ;): 0x2028 -- Unicode line separator 0x2029 -- Unicode paragraph s

Re: [abcusers] File names

2004-04-29 Thread Stephen Kellett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phil Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes On 29 Apr 2004, at 00:32, Steven Bennett wrote: According to Apple docs (I'll take their word for it... ;): 0x2028 -- Unicode line separator 0x2029 -- Unicode paragraph separator Thank you Steve, Pardon my ignorance, bu

Re: [abcusers] File names

2004-04-28 Thread Phil Taylor
On 28 Apr 2004, at 21:42, Steven Bennett wrote: That said, the file contents in the ABC specifications (including the 2.0 draft) are assumed to be strictly ASCII compliant, and I believe case sensitive everywhere. (Someone correct me if I missed something there.) I believe that the mode part of

Re: [abcusers] File names

2004-04-28 Thread Phil Taylor
On 29 Apr 2004, at 00:32, Steven Bennett wrote: According to Apple docs (I'll take their word for it... ;): 0x2028 -- Unicode line separator 0x2029 -- Unicode paragraph separator Pardon my ignorance, but how do you know that you're dealing with Unicode here, rather than the ascii " (" and

Re: [abcusers] File names

2004-04-28 Thread Steven Bennett
According to Apple docs (I'll take their word for it... ;): 0x2028 -- Unicode line separator 0x2029 -- Unicode paragraph separator -->Steve Bennett Stephen Kellett wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven Bennett > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> line endings needing to match throu

Re: [abcusers] File names

2004-04-28 Thread Stephen Kellett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes line endings needing to match throughout the file, and will accept Unicode line and paragraph endings What values (in hex - 0x, please) do those two characters have? Stephen -- Stephen Kellett Object Media Limitedhtt

Re: [abcusers] File names

2004-04-28 Thread Steven Bennett
> I'm just doublechecking since this conversation spun off of the > universal parser conversation... > > This conversation, while interesting doesn't actually pertain to the > parser does it? I've been trying to follow it in case it does. > > My understanding is that a parser will not do any fil

Re: [abcusers] File names

2004-04-28 Thread Christian M. Cepel
I'm just doublechecking since this conversation spun off of the universal parser conversation... This conversation, while interesting doesn't actually pertain to the parser does it? I've been trying to follow it in case it does. My understanding is that a parser will not do any file handling,

Re: [abcusers] File names

2004-04-28 Thread Steven Bennett
John Chambers wrote: > Lest you think this is way off topic, I might mention that I've been > involved in attempts to use non-ASCII char sets in my ABC tunes. I > have a lot of "international folk dance" tunes, and it would be > really nice to be able to spell the titles right. Also, I li

[abcusers] File names [was: reusable parser]

2004-04-28 Thread John Chambers
Martin Tarenskeen writes: | On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Stephen Kellett wrote: | > John Chambers wrote: | > >OSX presents an interesting portability challenge: The default file | > >system has "caseless" file names. If you look around, you might not | > >notice this, because mixed-case names abound. B