Re: foreign language characters

[Daniel Speck <dspeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here is a re-post of an article I sent to the list while it was offline

-dan

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Subject: Re: foreign language characters
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 12:07:17 -0500
From: Daniel Speck <dspeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Organization: Thomson Technology Services Group
To: dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Chris Maden wrote:
...
>        (sosofo-append (if (equal? (node-property 'class-name
>                                                  this-node)
>                                   'sdata)
>                           (case (node-property 'system-data
>                                                this-node)
>                                 ;; Hebrew letter schewa
>                                 (("[replacement text for schewa]")
>                                  (literal "o"))
>                                 ;; etc.
>                                 )

You might want to use the "entity-name" property instead of the
"system-data" property in the case statement, e.g.,

(case (node-property 'entity-name this-node)
 (("schewa") (literal "o"))
...

-dan
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