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Re: Treatment of Greek characters in CIF2

• Subject: Re: Treatment of Greek characters in CIF2
• From: Andrius Merkys <andrius.merkys@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:32:25 +0300
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Dear James,
On 20/04/17 08:38, James Hester wrote:> I toyed with the idea of allowing '\Uxxxxxx' for arbitrary Unicode> code points, but (i) this would clash with '\U' for capital upsilon> and (ii) is not expected by legacy applications and so would therefore> require that they be updated, in which case adapting them to just> ingest Unicode would be more straightforward.
we at the COD have been using XML character entities for this purpose:upon parsing/printing CIF 1.1 our software converts all non-ASCII valuesto their named or numeric XML entities. This is easy to implement asmost of the programming languages have encoders and decoders for XMLentities. Furthermore, named entities are easy to understand for humans.However, such method (i) may clash with XML entities already present inCIF and (ii) is not expected by other software. Therefore, it's not muchbetter.
Best wishes,Andrius
-- Andrius MerkysPhD student at Vilnius University Institute of Biotechnology, Saulėtekio al. 7, V325LT-10257 Vilnius, LithuaniaLecturer at Vilnius University Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Naugarduko g. 24LT-03225 Vilnius, Lithuania

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