buglibiconv - Bugs: bug #33486, Wishlist: TeX ASCII-7 encodings

 
 

bug #33486: Wishlist: TeX ASCII-7 encodings

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Submitted on:  Mon 06 Jun 2011 03:36:08 PM UTC  
 
Category: EncodingsSeverity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: NoneStatus: Not a Bug
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: Bruno Haible <haible>
Open/Closed: Closed

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Mon 06 Jun 2011 08:22:56 PM UTC, comment #1:

Such kinds of encodings are perfectly well handled by the
'recode' program by François Pinard.
http://recode.progiciels-bpi.ca/index.html
https://github.com/pinard/Recode

libiconv is meant as a central piece of conversion for
general-purpose programs. It therefore only needs support for
wide-spread encodings. See libiconv/NOTES for details.

Bruno Haible <haible>
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Mon 06 Jun 2011 03:36:08 PM UTC, original submission:

Some texts sometimes use a special encoding relying on various espace sequences --- like +\^e+ standing for +ê+, or +\oe+ for +œ+ and so on --- to encode accented some characters within the ASCII-7 set of characters.

These texts are typically found among those processed by TeX and related software, but not only: some email or usenet messages also rely on these escape sequences to encode characters apparently unavailable to the author of these messages, perhaps because of unappropriate equipment.

It would be appropriate and very useful to TeX users and mail user agents to have these character encodings supported by ICONV: however a formal definition of these character encodings also needs to be made. It would probably be good to have at least on of them for each widely used TeX format, suitable names could be TEX7-PLAIN, TEX7-LATEX and TEX7-CONTEXT for plain, LaTeX and ConTeXt.

Some bibliographic databases introduce even more markup to encode more information, like in -\'{E}l\'ements de math\'ematique- which should be translated to -{É}léments de mathématique- it is not so clear if this translation falls in the scope of LIBICONV.

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    Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
    Wed 23 Nov 2016 11:58:30 PM UTChaibleCategoryNone=>Encodings
      Severity3 - Normal=>1 - Wish
    Mon 06 Jun 2011 08:22:56 PM UTChaibleStatusNone=>Not a Bug
      Assigned toNone=>haible
      Open/ClosedOpen=>Closed

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