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Print Spanish characters in Perl? DanB 06-20-2008
Posted by DanB on June 20, 2008, 12:03 am
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 This is probably has a simple answer, but it isn't in my Perl books and I
have been trying to google it up using a dialup line locked down by the
telephone company to 20k bps. (And they don't offer what they call
broadband. i.e 56k)

Anyway, after a couple of hours of surfing through a very small part of
about 5 zillion hits for "Perl Unicode Spanish" at the rate of about one
page per minute, I decided to cheat and just ask.

Using Debian etch.
I am trying to build a set of Spanish flash cards using TK, and I need to
be able to display the accented characters. I know that I need to specify
them in some unicode besides utf-8, but an example of the actual Perl code
to activate(?) and use the proper unicode table is what I can't find.
Actually, Unicode is such a big topic that as a Perl beginner I might not
recognise the answer if I managed to google it up.

Anybody?

Thanks
Dan

Posted by smallpond on June 20, 2008, 9:11 am
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 DanB wrote:
> This is probably has a simple answer, but it isn't in my Perl books and I
> have been trying to google it up using a dialup line locked down by the
> telephone company to 20k bps. (And they don't offer what they call
> broadband. i.e 56k)
>
> Anyway, after a couple of hours of surfing through a very small part of
> about 5 zillion hits for "Perl Unicode Spanish" at the rate of about one
> page per minute, I decided to cheat and just ask.
>
> Using Debian etch.
> I am trying to build a set of Spanish flash cards using TK, and I need to
> be able to display the accented characters. I know that I need to specify
> them in some unicode besides utf-8, but an example of the actual Perl code
> to activate(?) and use the proper unicode table is what I can't find.
> Actually, Unicode is such a big topic that as a Perl beginner I might not
> recognise the answer if I managed to google it up.
>
> Anybody?
>
> Thanks
> Dan


Not sure if usenet will like the accented chars, but this works on the
command line:

perl -e 'use Tk; new MainWindow(-title=>"Cómo está?"); MainLoop'

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Posted by Ted Zlatanov on June 20, 2008, 1:52 pm
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JE> Oh, now that you mention it, maybe the OP wasn't asking about how to
JE> correctly print/display non-ASCII characters from his Perl program but
JE> about how to enter them on his keyboard in the editor. Two very
JE> different things.
JE> The easiest way would be to switch the keyboard into Spanish mode. How
JE> to do that depends on your OS.
JE> If you have to type text in multiple different languages frequently you
JE> might want to check out those keyboards that have little LCDs on the
JE> keys, which change to actually match the national layout for the current
JE> keyboard mode.

As a follow up I wanted to mention my favorite tools for this.

Yudit is a good Unicode editor that can do a lot of edge cases for
input.

Yet another way is to use Emacs with Quail. It lets you set up
transliterated inputs; for example with quail-cyrillic-translit I can
type `къща №5' with k ~ /t a /no 5

There are equivalent methods for Western European inputs:
latin1-alt-postfix for example has this table (from the docs):

| postfix | examples
------------+---------+----------
acute | ' | a' -> á
grave | ` | a` -> à
circumflex | ^ | a^ -> â
diaeresis | \" | a\" -> ä
tilde | ~ | a~ -> ã
cedilla | / | c/ -> ç
nordic | / | d/ -> ð t/ -> þ a/ -> å e/ -> æ o/ -> ø
others | /<> | s/ -> ß ?/ -> ¿ !/ -> ¡
| various | << -> « >> -> » o_ -> º a_ -> ª

This is not directly related to Perl, but it's really hard (IMHO) to set
up easy input of UCS characters in a consistent way across platforms, so
inside Emacs Quail is a pretty good solution. I hope someone finds it
useful.

Ted

Posted by RedGrittyBrick on June 23, 2008, 10:22 am
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Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>
> JE> Oh, now that you mention it, maybe the OP wasn't asking about how to
> JE> correctly print/display non-ASCII characters from his Perl program but
> JE> about how to enter them on his keyboard in the editor. Two very
> JE> different things.
> JE> The easiest way would be to switch the keyboard into Spanish mode. How
> JE> to do that depends on your OS.
> JE> If you have to type text in multiple different languages frequently you
> JE> might want to check out those keyboards that have little LCDs on the
> JE> keys, which change to actually match the national layout for the current
> JE> keyboard mode.
>
> As a follow up I wanted to mention my favorite tools for this.
>
> Yudit is a good Unicode editor that can do a lot of edge cases for
> input.
>
> Yet another way is to use Emacs with Quail. It lets you set up
> transliterated inputs; for example with quail-cyrillic-translit I can
> type `къща №5' with k ~ /t a /no 5
>
> There are equivalent methods for Western European inputs:
> latin1-alt-postfix for example has this table (from the docs):
>
> | postfix | examples
> ------------+---------+----------
> acute | ' | a' -> á
> grave | ` | a` -> à
> circumflex | ^ | a^ -> â
> diaeresis | \" | a\" -> ä
> tilde | ~ | a~ -> ã
> cedilla | / | c/ -> ç
> nordic | / | d/ -> ð t/ -> þ a/ -> å e/ -> æ o/ -> ø
> others | /<> | s/ -> ß ?/ -> ¿ !/ -> ¡
> | various | << -> « >> -> » o_ -> º a_ -> ª
>
> This is not directly related to Perl, but it's really hard (IMHO) to set
> up easy input of UCS characters in a consistent way across platforms, so
> inside Emacs Quail is a pretty good solution. I hope someone finds it
> useful.
>

In vim `:help digraphs`.

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