Re: Problem with accented characters

2004-08-25 Thread Rick McGowan
Philippe wrote: > Actually, it was based on decompositions in Unicode 2.01. There is no such version. Perhaps you meant another version? Rick

Re: Problem with accented characters

2004-08-25 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "John H. Jenkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Aug 23, 2004, at 3:34 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: > > > Deborah Goldsmith wrote: > > > >> FYI, by far the largest source of text in NFD (decomposed) form in > >> Mac OS X is the file system. File names are stored this way (for > >> historical reasons), so

Re: Problem with accented characters

2004-08-23 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Aug 23, 2004, at 3:34 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: Deborah Goldsmith wrote: FYI, by far the largest source of text in NFD (decomposed) form in Mac OS X is the file system. File names are stored this way (for historical reasons), so anything copied from a file name is in (a slightly altered form of) NF

Re: Problem with accented characters

2004-08-23 Thread Doug Ewell
Deborah Goldsmith wrote: > FYI, by far the largest source of text in NFD (decomposed) form in > Mac OS X is the file system. File names are stored this way (for > historical reasons), so anything copied from a file name is in (a > slightly altered form of) NFD. "Slightly altered"? -Doug Ewell

Re: Problem with accented characters

2004-08-23 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
FYI, by far the largest source of text in NFD (decomposed) form in Mac OS X is the file system. File names are stored this way (for historical reasons), so anything copied from a file name is in (a slightly altered form of) NFD. Also, a few keyboard layouts generate text that is partly decompos

Re: Problem with accented characters

2004-08-23 Thread Doug Ewell
Problem with accented charactersWilliam Tay wrote: > Can anyone explain why an accented character is sometimes represented > as a base character plus its accent? For example, the utf-8 > representation for à is 65 CC 81, which is the utf-8 representation > for e and the accent, instead of C3 A9?

Problem with accented characters

2004-08-23 Thread Tay, William
Title: Problem with accented characters Hi, Can anyone explain why an accented character is sometimes represented as a base character plus its accent?  For example, the utf-8 representation for é is 65 CC 81, which is the utf-8 representation for e and the accent, instead of C3 A9?  I