Unicode Charts

[Dominic Olivastro]

Hi All:

I have to pull text in an XML document. The text is filled with special characters mapped to hex, eg, "" which I have to translate as simply "a" or possibly something like "[.a-grave.]"

I was thinking of creating a table that had all the codes in the document and then translating them by hand through various sources I found on the web, but there are well over 400 of them.

Two questions:
1. Is my "table-approach" the way to go?
2. If so, is there a place to get all the codes in one place, preferably something I can download and just plop into my table?

Thanks
Dom

 

[Ashmodai]

Dominic Olivastro scribbled something along the lines of:

Hi All:

I have to pull text in an XML document. The text is filled with special characters mapped to hex, eg, "" which I have to translate as simply "a" or possibly something like "[.a-grave.]"

I was thinking of creating a table that had all the codes in the document and then translating them by hand through various sources I found on the web, but there are well over 400 of them.

Two questions:
1. Is my "table-approach" the way to go?
2. If so, is there a place to get all the codes in one place, preferably something I can download and just plop into my table?

Thanks
Dom

Just so you know. 400 is well less than what there really is. The unicode charts have a range well above one million characters. Luckily there's a lot of gaps.

http://www.unicode.org/charts/