Am 14.09.2013 um 19:16 schrieb john Culleton <j...@wexfordpress.com>:

> On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 17:42:42 +0200
> Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Am 14.09.2013 um 15:34 schrieb john Culleton <j...@wexfordpress.com>:
>> 
>>> Excellent! Now in MKIV how would I encode an opening quote mark
>>> American style? In previous TeX programs it was always ``. The MKIV
>>> substitute \quotation{foo} 
>>> is not practical for my application, where the raw input code
>>> may use the ditto mark " for both opening and closing quotes. I am
>>> looking for something in MKIV equivalent to \char92 in plain TeX. On
>>> the unicode table I find the hex value 008013 but I don't know how
>>> to plug that in to a macro that redefines the first occurrence of "
>>> to be that character, and the second occurrence to be hex 000814
>>> etc. I can write the macro, I just need the expression equivalent
>>> to \char that gives me such characters in MKIV.
>> 
>> Are you sure these are the correct values?
>> 
>> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/8013/index.htm
>> 
>> 
>> What’s wrong with \char?
>> 
>> \starttext
>> 
>> \char"201C TEXT\char"201D
>> 
>> \utfchar{"201C}TEXT\utfchar{"201D}
>> 
>> \fontchar{quotedblleft}TEXT\fontchar{quotedblright}
>> 
>> \stoptext
>> 
>> Wolfgang
> 
> Well you answered my question. The chart I read for unicode characters 
> gave the values I quoted. I guess I was reading the wrong chart. What
> chart do you use?

- http://www.unicode.org/charts/
- http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf
- http://www.decodeunicode.org/
- http://www.decodeunicode.org/u+201C
- http://www.typografie.de/product_info.php?products_id=1409&language=en

Wolfgang
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