Unicode characters

[schneider@rz.uni-frankfurt.de]

as a biginner,

maybe I have a question already answered 1000 times but I do not know
how to find the answers.

problem:

depending on an input value, I would like to output greek characters
(f. e. those between U+03B1 to U+03C9. One way would be to define two
arrays: one with the possible input values ("abgde...") and a second
array with the corresponding values ("\u03b1\u03b2\ u03b3...").

But I hoped I could skip the second by a computation, f.e. "g" has
index 2 in the first array, so output "\u03b1"+2.

This does not work (of course). But do I have a chance to "compute"
the output value?

Thanks
Hanspeter

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Re: Unicode characters

schneider@rz.un i-frankfurt.de wrote:

But I hoped I could skip the second by a computation, f.e. "g" has
index 2 in the first array, so output "\u03b1"+2.
>
This does not work (of course). But do I have a chance to "compute"
the output value?
>

Perhaps is the following useful:

alert(String.fr omCharCode("\u0 3b1".charCodeAt (0) + 2));


JW

[Bart Van der Donck]

Re: Unicode characters

schnei...@rz.un i-frankfurt.de wrote:

maybe I have a question already answered 1000 times but I do not know
how to find the answers.
>
problem:
depending on an input value, I would like to output greek characters
(f. e. those between U+03B1 to U+03C9. One way would be to define two
arrays: one with the possible input values ("abgde...") and a second
array with the corresponding values ("\u03b1\u03b2\ u03b3...").

Yes it looks like Greek-Greeklish has been done many times before:

http://www.google.com/search?q=greek+greeklish+conversion

http://www.translatum.gr/converter/greeklish-converter.htm

http://ncnever.free.fr/translit/

http://speech.ilsp.gr/greeklish/greeklishdemo.asp

But I hoped I could skip the second by a computation, f.e. "g" has
index 2 in the first array, so output "\u03b1"+2.
>
This does not work (of course). But do I have a chance to "compute"
the output value?

Considering the character conversions at

http://www.translatum.gr/converter/greek-transliteration.htm

I think you need a lookup-table anyhow.

Hope this helps,

--
Bart