From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: XMLAda & unicode symbols
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 22:23:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <saqsf9$hjb$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: a3dc3722-9425-4d57-a1fd-ddee9d0f5f20n@googlegroups.com
On 2021-06-21 21:49, 196...@googlemail.com wrote:
> On Monday, 21 June 2021 at 16:37:21 UTC+1, Simon Wright wrote:
>> "196...@googlemail.com" <196...@googlemail.com> writes:
>>
>>> That's the degree symbol, what I really need is the degree centigrade
>>> symbol which is U+2103.
>>>
>>> Having Character'Val (16#21#) & Character'Val (16#03#) fails at runtime.
>> That's because the utf-8 encoding is 3 octets, 0xE2 0x84 0x83
>
> Yup, that works, but just how the heck do you get from U+2103 to those 3 octets?
This is how UTF-8 encoding works. It is variable length. Lager the code
point is more octets you need.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
has a nice table explaining how code point bits gets distributed across
the octets.
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-19 18:28 XMLAda & unicode symbols 196...@googlemail.com
2021-06-19 19:53 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-06-20 17:02 ` 196...@googlemail.com
2021-06-20 17:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-06-20 17:58 ` 196...@googlemail.com
2021-06-20 18:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-06-21 19:40 ` 196...@googlemail.com
2021-06-21 20:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-06-21 15:37 ` Simon Wright
2021-06-21 19:49 ` 196...@googlemail.com
2021-06-21 20:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2021-06-21 20:47 ` Simon Wright
2021-06-22 0:30 ` Spiros Bousbouras
2021-06-20 18:21 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-06-20 18:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-06-20 22:50 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-06-21 4:16 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2021-06-21 9:39 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-06-21 6:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-06-19 21:24 ` Simon Wright
2021-06-20 17:10 ` 196...@googlemail.com
2021-06-21 15:26 ` Simon Wright
2021-06-21 18:33 ` Emmanuel Briot
2021-06-21 20:06 ` 196...@googlemail.com
2021-06-21 21:26 ` Simon Wright
2021-06-22 6:52 ` Emmanuel Briot
2021-06-21 21:22 ` Simon Wright
2021-06-21 6:07 ` Vadim Godunko
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