Re: How to translate LaTeX into UTF-8 in Elisp?

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2017-07-03, at 11:31, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

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> On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 11:16:12AM +0200, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
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>> On 2017-07-03, at 07:43, Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> wrote:
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>> > Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
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>> >> I'm revisiting this old thread now. Since I got no
>> >> satisfying answers back then, here is my plan for
>> >> solution [...]
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>> > If you setup the names consistently it is even
>> > a good-looking solution.
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> [...]
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>> I'm not sure whether I follow you here.  Why should *I* setup the names?
>> They are in ucs-names (as I said), and they are official Unicode names.
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>> It is still a hack, since it relies on the Unicode names being correct.
>> Have you seen this?
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>> https://codepoints.net/U+FE18?lang=en
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>> Notice the typo in the name.  It's in the standard (somehow it slipped
>> through;-)), so the typo is there forever (or rather, for as long as
>> Unicode is going to be around).
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> Yes: they even listed a "correction". Unicode (and Emacs) seem to have
> a mechanism in place for a code point to have more than one name (I
> don't know whether there can be more than two, though). So perhaps the
> only thing to cope with is that the mapping name -> code point isn't
> injective (whatever that means for your approach)?

Interesting.  The "other" name doesn't appear in (ucs-names), though, so
it's not useful for me here.  In any case, I am aware of no such typos
in accented letters anyway;-).

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski