Re: What is meant by '\u0000'?

From: DougEwell2@cs.com
Date: Tue Nov 27 2001 - 02:19:38 EST


In a message dated 2001-11-26 10:42:17 Pacific Standard Time,
juuichiketajin@ranmamail.com writes:

>> As for cut & paste, it might work among Microsoft Apps
>> but if one wants to interface an app with a disclosed
>> clipboard format he will realize that he can not paste
>> unicode text that contains '\u0000' characters. Impossible.
>
> Does he mean specifically the character U+0000, or rather any character
> referenced by hex codepoint?

Hmmm. I hadn't looked at it that way. No, I don't suppose you could paste
the six ASCII characters "\u0410" into a Word document and get a Cyrillic A.
But it would be a real stretch to claim that Microsoft's handling of Unicode
is broken or idiosyncratic simply because their apps don't support this
special notation.

> It would be useful to have a utility where you type text and out come the
> '\u0000' type strings (or else HTML hash codes) for use in a Java program
or
> Web page.

SC UniPad can convert Unicode text to and from both Java-style \u0000
notation and HTML/SGML entities (either hex or decimal). Visit
http://www.unipad.org for a free download.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California



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