Re: Code Point -- What is the integer?

From: Edward H. Trager (ehtrager@umich.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 28 2005 - 11:34:45 CST

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    On Thursday 2005.04.28 19:09:42 +0300, Simon Montagu wrote:
    > >So I we want to be able to say, for the layman:
    > >
    > >"The entire Tamil alphabet is contained between characters 2560 and 2843
    > >in the unicode series" But one need sto
    > >
    > >a) be able find where those blocks are (where do you go to find the
    > >blocks beginning and endings for different languages)
    > >b) be able to translate "U+0BE6" (which is a position in the Tamil set)
    > > back to a simple integer in the series. If I just "do the math* using
    > >the same correlation for the Letter A ["0041" = "65"therefore 0BE6 must
    > >equal **** ] ... will it be correct?
    > >
    > >I'm hoping I can go somewhere to find this info easily from some tables....
    >
    > Try the following links:
    >
    > http://www.unicode.org/charts/
    > http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html
    > http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/charts.html
    >

    The recently-developed Decode Unicode site also provides a very nice
    graphical interface showing the blocks and character allocations in Unicode:

       http://www.decodeunicode.org

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