> I use tex4ht to transform some TeX fragments to XML > > For instance the authors names of some physics articles: > \author{Francesco D'Eramo} > <contrib><string-name>Francesco D’Eramo</string-name>... > > which is correctly shown by any decent xml viewer as: > <contrib><string-name>Francesco D’Eramo</string-name>... > > (for instance https://repo.scoap3.org/record/19196/files/main.xml) > > Sometimes, I need to compare the author's name from these XML to what > we have in our DB, and what we have in our DB is always in the form > Francesco D'Eramo > (with simple ' instead of ’ or ’) > > This is not a big problem (I just replace ’ with ' and do my > comparison).
You can make a copy of unicode.4hf in your working dir and delete the line with ’. It will be converted as a character then. Michal