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Subject: Displaying Unicode using editor cell mode publish (utf-8 encoded

From: Freelance Embedded Systems Engineer

Date: 13 May, 2008 16:09:49

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I have a UTF-8 encoded byte array consisting of the hexadecimal numerical values, for example the 3-byte array (a): "E2 99 A0".

I can convert this array using "b=native2Unicode(a,'UTF-8') to obtain a 2-byte character string, but I want to be able to view the result, (in this example, the Black Spade Suit character, Unicode 02660).

Since I believe that Matlab can't display this in the command window[1], I would like to display this in the HTML results produced by the Publish process, (M-file editor cell mode option). The resulting HTML file does have a "meta" definition in the <head> that includes:

    contents="text/html; charset=utf-8".

So I'm trying to figure out what Matlab commands I need to issue in order to get the desired result from the UTF-8 encoded array, or if I need to learn about style sheets to get the desired result.

Note
[1] I've tried various desktop code fonts in the preferences including Arial Unicode MS which displays a square box for the desired result in the example below.


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         Example Matlab code
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a=uint8([hex2dec('E2'),hex2dec('8C'),hex2dec('A0')])
     226 140 160

b=native2unicode(a,'UTF-8')

    %nothing displayed in monospace fonts
    %empty square box displayed in Arial Unicode MS

whos
    Name Size Bytes Class
    a 1x3 3 uint8
    b 1x1 2 char
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Reference URLs:
http://isthisthingon.org/unicode/index.phtml?page=02&subpage=6&glyph=02660
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/utf8.htm

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Subject: Displaying Unicode using editor cell mode publish (utf-8 encoded

From: Matthew Simoneau

Date: 20 May, 2008 06:28:02

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The only thing I can think of is to escape it yourself and
then use the <html> tag to pass it straight through. This
code should get you started:

a = uint8([hex2dec('E2'),hex2dec('8C'),hex2dec('A0')]);
b = native2unicode(a,'UTF-8');
c = uint16(b);
fprintf('<html>&#%.0f;</html>\n',c)

It seems like this should be handled automatically, but I
need to do some more digging.

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