Tag: Unicode

Best Way To Transliterate Unicode to ASCII? Python Help Needed With Solution.

For creating audio-books I use a text-to-speech engine. One problem is that the application dies on Unicode text. The documents that I encode are too long to correct manually so I want it automated. The correction isn’t as simple as removing all Unicode text though because if possible I don’t want to lose the meaning of the character when it is easily converted to ASCII.

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How to Type the OSX “Pretzel” Key in Unicode

Emacs tells you everything that you need to know about it using describe-char:

             position: 927 of 1056 (88%), column: 33

            character: ⌘ (displayed as ⌘) (codepoint 8984, #o21430, #x2318)

    preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))

code point in charset: 0x2318

               script: symbol

               syntax: . 	which means: punctuation

             category: .:Base, j:Japanese

             to input: type "C-x 8 RET HEX-CODEPOINT" or "C-x 8 RET NAME"

          buffer code: #xE2 #x8C #x98

            file code: #xE2 #x8C #x98 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)

              display: by this font (glyph code)

    mac-ct:-*-Lucida Grande-normal-normal-normal-*-17-*-*-*-p-0-iso10646-1 (#x3B4)


Character code properties: customize what to show

  name: PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN

  old-name: COMMAND KEY

  general-category: So (Symbol, Other)

  decomposition: (8984) ('⌘')


There are text properties here:

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