Subject: Re: Problem with Japanese language From: "Kar Yan Ng" <kyng@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 21:38:00 -0800 |
----- Original Message ----- From: Didier PH Martin <martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, January 11, 1999 3:26 PM Subject: RE: Problem with Japanese language >Hi, > >Sorry for my ignorance but how can I modify LCNMSTRT and UCNMSTRT? can you >just give me an example of how to set that. Is it set by a markup? if yes >how the markup looks like? should I include this in the document prolog >(i.e. before the doctype declaration)? > >Thanx for your help >Didier PH Martin Yes, according to the SGML standards, an SGML declaration may be placed before the doctype declaration or the DTD to tell the SGML parser various lexical characteristics of the document, like character sets the document use, the characters used for tags, and various SGML features. Therefore, to specify extra characters to be used for the name tags in addition to alpha-numeric character, in the SGML declaration we need to add the corresponding character numbers (in the corresponding character set, e.g. ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993 UCS-2 ) at the appropriate sections, namely: LCNMSTRT : lower case name start characters UCNMSTRT: upper case name start characters LCNMCHAR: lower case name characters UCNMCHAR: upper case name characters For instance, a LCNMSTRT section could look like: 1007-1009 1072-1103 1105-1116 This tells the parser that characters 1007-1009 (e.g.) in the character set could be used as lower case name start characters in the SGML documents. Therefore, we need to find out from ISO 10646 the characters numbers that represents the Japanese characters that could appear in the element names of the SGML documents. and put these in the appropriate sections in the SGML declaration. So far, I have only tried this approach once with an SGML document with a single non-ASCII tag. But I suppose the same principles should apply to bigger documents. I will try this on Bosak's documents to see if it works or not. Kar Yan DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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