July 2012
Beginner
151 pages
3h 27m
English
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Chapter 6. Matching Unicode and Other Characters
You will have occasion to match characters or ranges of characters that are outside the scope of ASCII. ASCII, or the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, defines an English character set—the letters A through Z in upper- and lowercase, plus control and other characters. It’s been around for a long time: The 128-character Latin-based set was standardized in 1968. That was back before there was such a thing as a personal computer, before VisiCalc, before the mouse, before the Web, but I still look up ASCII charts online regularly.
I remember when I started my career many years ago, I worked with an engineer who kept an ASCII code chart in his wallet. Just in case. The ASCII Code Chart: Don’t leave home without it.
So I won’t gainsay the importance of ASCII, but now it is dated, especially in light of the Unicode standard (http://www.unicode.org), which currently represents over 100,000 characters. Unicode, however, does not leave ASCII in the dust; it incorporates ASCII into its Basic Latin code table (see http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf).
In this chapter, you will step out of the province of ASCII into the not-so-new world of Unicode.
The first text is voltaire.txt from the code archive, a quote from Voltaire (1694–1778), the French Enlightenment philosopher.
Qu’est-ce que la tolérance? c’est l’apanage de l’humanité. Nous sommes tous pétris de faiblesses et d’erreurs; pardonnons-nous réciproquement nos sottises, ...
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