Re: Importing a text file with German accented characters

[Jon Riding]

Charles,

Thanks for the response.
UTF-8 file attached. This example includes Unicode codepoints (decimal):

0227 a-tilde
0245 o-tilde
0297 i-tilde
0331 Latin Small Letter ENG
0361 u-tilde
0596 Latin Small Letter OPEN O
0603 Latin Small Letter OPEN E
0617 Latin Small Letter IOTA
0651 Latin Small Letter V WITH HOOK
7869 Latin Small Letter E WITH TILDE

If you want to see the glyphs you will need a suitable font:
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium_download 
will serve.

This example covers the needs of only one vernacular language. There are 
hundreds of others many of which will require 'extra' characters beyond the 
standard sets. Some may require custom glyphs placed in the Unicode PUA. You can 
probably understand my reluctance to start hacking 8-bit fonts to cover all these.

Jon Riding



Charles de Miramon wrote:
Jon Riding wrote:
 
I have a related problem with UTF-8 characters which judging from this
discussion may not be achievable in LyX. I need to include text in my
documents taken from data in Bantu and Nilotic group languages. Some of
these include accented vowels and other characters that are not present in
the European character sets (yes, the world really is bigger that N
America and Europe).


Could you show some examples of these special vowels and characters.

Cheers,
Charles
Processing Log:
Sun Mar 05 19:36:54 GMT 2006

Alphabet = '-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz~ãõĩŋũɔɛɩʋẽ
~       [126]   86      0.007974038             2.0446251E-4
ã      [227]   1       9.272137E-5             2.377471E-6
õ      [245]   1       9.272137E-5             2.377471E-6
Ä©      [297]   39165   3.6314325               0.09311366
ŋ      [331]   16      0.0014835419            3.8039536E-5
Å©      [361]   25589   2.3726473               0.06083711
ɔ      [596]   2       1.8544274E-4            4.754942E-6
ɛ      [603]   1       9.272137E-5             2.377471E-6
É©      [617]   1       9.272137E-5             2.377471E-6
ʋ      [651]   1       9.272137E-5             2.377471E-6
ẽ     [7869]  1       9.272137E-5             2.377471E-6