60982 b101 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Based on query discussed on #erlang,inputs from smoove,stonecypher. %% %% To be able to convert unicode to a form that can be evaluated %% in javascript since it of unicode escape format %% eg: the copyright symbol will be escaped into \u00a9 %% %% %%%% %% Resources for unicode / binary/ string conversion in erlang %%%% %% http://pianosa.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/erlang/utf8.erl %% http://12monkeys.co.uk/starling/ %% http://www.lshift.net/~tonyg/erlang-rfc4627/ %% http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/io.html %% http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/International_characters_in_XUL_JavaScript %%%% %% -b101 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%functions added to utf8.erl which already exports [encode/1, decode/1] -export([list_to_uXXXX/1,binary_to_uXXXX/1] %list into unicode escaped javascript form list_to_uXXXX(Str)-> lists:flatten[io_lib:format("\\u~4.16.0B",[X]) || X <- Str]. %% first converting to list,then to uXXXX form binary_to_uXXXX(Bin)-> list_to_uXXXX(decode(Bin)). 3420198755 None Erlang TRUE 1 b101 UPDATES %%%%%%%% found that suppose you have unicode rendered within javascript, it can very much be used as a literal, and will infact match identically to the same unicode word found elsewhere within the HTML DOM. also, even though the to_XXXX did no throw any errors, it wasnt showing the correct possible because N number of binaries/list does not necessarily mean N symbols (a symbol can be formed by more than a series of binary elements) an excellent utility that helped me easily evalute the decimal/binary/hexa values of unicode symbols (just paste them into a text area to see results) was located at http://software.ellerton.net/txt2bin/ ~b101 3420205887 None TRUE