PERL Miscellaneous - Re: unicode: é=>e, á=>a

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Re: unicode: é=>e, á=>a

Arndt Jonasson

2005-02-24, 8:57 am

Calle Dybedahl <posted@cyberpomo.com> writes:
>
>
> No, that would be worse. If you just remove the characters that can't
> be displayed (preferably replacing them with question marks or
> something similar), it's obvious that your text has been changed.

Removing necessary marks from the letters is an atrocity, but the
alternative of removing the letters altogether is worse, I think.

Replacing them with digraphs is better, but may be language-dependent.
In some languages, such replacements are officially sanctioned; in others,
they are only a crutch. Examples:
é -> e' (or 'e)
è e`
ö oe
å aa

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