Re: Character encoding / poor man's letterspacing

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2019-03-12 um 10:43 schrieb Urs Liska <address@hidden>:
>> Also, I should have been clear before.  David's code should work for most 
>> cases.  I was just being pedantic that /./ would not work if the input has 
>> combining characters.  For instance, if you type U+0308 (Combining 
>> Diaeresis) after an 'a', you'll get an ä.  But the simple regex would not 
>> treat that as a single grapheme.  The result would be "T a ̈ s t".
> 
> I did understand it that way, and it would not be an issue in the project I'm 
> working on. There it's just some umlauts.

That doesn’t matter. E.g. MacOSX tends to encode umlauts in the file system as 
decomposed UTF-8, i.e. with combining diacritics instead of single glyphs.
But if that happens, you can just re-type or search-and-replace the few umlauts.


Greetlings, Hraban
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Henning Hraban Ramm
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