Re: Simple string conversion from UCS2 to ISO8859-1

On 22.02.2025 07:13, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 05:29:14 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
 

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

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[*]).

 
The file itself says different
<https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/NamesList.txt>:
 
    This file is semi-automatically derived from UnicodeData.txt and a
    set of manually created annotations using a script to select or
    suppress information from the data file. The rules used for this
    process are aimed at readability for the human reader, at the
    expense of some details; therefore, this file should not be parsed
    for machine-readable information.

I see, but I certainly wouldn't refrain from parsing it. (In the past
I had parsed much worse data; irregular HTML stuff and the like.)
OTOH, there's also the CSV data file available, yet even simpler to
parse with standard tools and no effort.

Janis