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Re: ascii char 26

From	Retahiv Oopsiscame <roopsisc@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: ascii char 26
Date	2011-09-11 16:53 -0700
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On Sep 11, 7:18 pm, Bent C Dalager <b...@pvv.ntnu.no> wrote:
> On 2011-09-11, bob <b...@coolgroups.com> wrote:
>
> > Anyone know why ASCII char 26 is used in place of a hyphen in UTF-8?
>
> Unicode has multiple different hyphens and hyphen-like characters.
>
> The traditional ASCII hyphen is the Unicode "hyphen-minus" which
> encodes to 0x2d in utf-8.
>
> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2d/index.htmsuggests the
> following additional hyphen-like characters that you may actually be
> working with in your string, and that will probably be mapped to 26 in
> your case:
>
> hyphen U+2010
> non-breaking hyphen U+2011
> figure dash U+2012
> en dash U+2013
> minus sign U+2212
> roman uncia sign U+10191

Wow, what a mess!

> One would tend to think there ought to be a library function somewhere
> to convert a unicode string to ASCII-supported variants of its various
> characters where possible,

Indeed.

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ascii char 26 bob <bob@coolgroups.com> - 2011-09-11 14:33 -0700
  Re: ascii char 26 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-11 17:48 -0400
  Re: ascii char 26 Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-09-11 16:52 -0500
    Re: ascii char 26 Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-09-11 18:28 -0400
    Re: ascii char 26 bob <bob@coolgroups.com> - 2011-09-11 19:12 -0700
      Re: ascii char 26 Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-09-11 21:25 -0500
        Re: ascii char 26 bob <bob@coolgroups.com> - 2011-09-12 01:30 -0700
  Re: ascii char 26 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-11 15:25 -0700
  Re: ascii char 26 Bent C Dalager <bcd@pvv.ntnu.no> - 2011-09-11 23:18 +0000
    Re: ascii char 26 Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-09-11 18:37 -0500
    Re: ascii char 26 Retahiv Oopsiscame <roopsisc@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 16:53 -0700
      Re: ascii char 26 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-14 11:55 -0700

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