Re: Simple string conversion from UCS2 to ISO8859-1

On 22.02.2025 04:00, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:42:13 +0100, pozz wrote:
 

Yes, I have to decide, but it is a very big problem (there are thousands
of Unicode symbols that can be approximated to another ISO8859-1 code).
I'm wondering if such an approximation is just implemented somewhere.

 
If you look at NamesList.txt, you will see, next to each character,
references to others that might be similar or related in some way.
 
They say not to try to parse that file automatically, but I’ve had some
success doing exactly that ... so far ...

I wonder why they say so, given that there's a syntax description
available on their pages (see the respective HTML file[*]).


BTW; curious about that [informal] part of the syntax description

LF:   <any sequence of a single ASCII 0A or 0D, or both>

It looks like they accept not only LF, CR, CR-LF, but also LF-CR.
Is the latter of any practical relevance?

Janis

[*] https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/NamesList.html