Get Unicode of characters in LISP

[Ahankhah 12]

Hi all,

 

I have written a simple routine to convert "Unicode"s to equivalent "character"s

 

It is as following:

 

(defun MT:Conv:Unichar->Char    ;added: 94/12/12
      (%unichar% / *ret*)
(command "_.TEXT" '(0 0) "0.3" "0" %unichar%)
(setq *ret* (cdr (assoc 1 (entget (entlast)))))
(entdel (entlast))
*ret*
)

 

Example:

(MT:Conv:Unichar->Char "\\U+0647")    -- returns -->    "ه"

 

Is there any way to define a function to do the reverse?

I mean, it gets "character" as arguments and returns equivalent "Unicode"?

 

I appreciate any help or suggestions.

[honglog 12]

Hi,

what if you replace *ret* with (vl-string->list *ret*)? does it return (92 85 43 48 54 52 55) ?

[Roy_043 96]

@Ahankhah:

The function MT:CONV:UNICHAR->CHAR doesn't do much... In a roundabout way it merely returns the input string.

(setq a (MT:CONV:UNICHAR->CHAR "\U+0647"))
(setq b "\U+0647")
(= a b) => T

My suggestion for your request:

; (String_To_UniCode "ABC") => "\\U+0041\\U+0042\\U+0043"
(defun String_To_UniCode (str)
 (apply
   'strcat
   (mapcar
     '(lambda (int / hex)
       (setq hex (KGA_Math_Dec_To_Hex int))
       (repeat (- 4 (strlen hex))
         (setq hex (strcat "0" hex))
       )
       (strcat "\\U+" hex)
     )
     (vl-string->list str)
   )
 )
)

(defun KGA_Math_Dec_To_Base (int base / lst rest)
 (if (zerop int)
   "0"
   (progn
     (while (> int 0)
       (setq
         rest (rem int base)
         lst (cons (+ rest (if (<= rest 9) 48 55)) lst)
         int (/ int base)
       )
     )
     (vl-list->string lst)
   )
 )
)

; (KGA_Math_Dec_To_Hex 2147483647) => "7FFFFFFF"
; (KGA_Math_Dec_To_Hex 14285)      => "37CD"
; (KGA_Math_Dec_To_Hex 0)          => "0"
(defun KGA_Math_Dec_To_Hex (int)
 (KGA_Math_Dec_To_Base int 16)
)

[honglog 12]

(vl-string->list "ABC") does return (65 66 67). For ASCII characters, it works.

What about international characters?

(vl-string->list "ه") returns (92 85 43 48 54 52 55), which turns out to be \U+0647

And dismayingly, in my dwgcodepage ANSI_936, (vl-string->list "啊") returns (176 161) rather than its unicode which should be \U+554A

[Roy_043 96]

@honglog:

It seems that BricsCAD (the program I use) and AutoCAD have a different implementation of vl-string->list and perhaps also of the ascii function.

 

Some tests with BricsCAD:

(setq a "\U+0647")
(ascii a) => 1607
(vl-string->list a) => (1607)
(String_To_UniCode a) => "\\U+0647"

(setq b "\U+554A")
(ascii b) => 21834
(vl-string->list b) => (21834)
(String_To_UniCode b) => "\\U+554A"

[granat 13]

I HAVE A FILE NAME IN UNICODE :(SETQ QFILE "D:\\\U+05D3\U+05D5\U+05E8\U+05D5\U+05DF\\DRAWING3.DWG")

I CAN'T OPEN A NEW FILE

(setq f (open qfile "w")

[granat 13]

ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkczYaBlbNY

 

Problem displaying Arabic letters on windows - YouTube

[hanhphuc 113]

I HAVE A FILE NAME IN UNICODE :(SETQ QFILE "D:\\\U+05D3\U+05D5\U+05E8\U+05D5\U+05DF\\DRAWING3.DWG")

I CAN'T OPEN A NEW FILE

(setq f (open qfile "w")

hi, you only can write to asciii file, e.g .dxf, txt, csv etc.., but not a drawing file

 

do you mean open a new drawing?

 

just curious ac2007

 ([color="blue"]ascii[/color] "\U+6C49") [color="green"];returns only 92 the first char[/color]

[granat 13]

hi, you only can write to asciii file, e.g .dxf, txt, csv etc.., but not a drawing file

 

do you mean open a new drawing?

 

just curious ac2007

 ([color="blue"]ascii[/color] "\U+6C49") [color="green"];returns only 92 the first char[/color]

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vlisp return the name of the folder in Unicode ?!?

(setq a (strcat (getvar "dwgprefix")(setvar "dwgname"))) = D:\\\U+05D3\U+05D5\U+05E8\U+05D5\U+05DF\\DRAWING3 .DWG"

because the folder name is in Hebrew : "D:\\דורון\\DRAWING3.DWG"

I found the solution:

Problem displaying Arabic letters on windows - YouTube

ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkczYaBlbNY