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UTF8 range for Chinese | @Samuel

LIZ LI — Tue, 04 May 2021 13:23:00 +0000

Forum: Localization
Topic: UTF8 range for Chinese
Poster: LIZ LI
Post title: @Samuel

Here's a free conversion page between UTF8 & Chinese:
[url removed]

Copy & paste the source for Chinese > UTF8 in the UPPER dialog box, then click the 1st green button below;
OR
Copy & paste the source for UTF8 > Chinese in the LOWER dialog box, then click the 2nd green button below.

If you want to do it manually, you may also try [url removed]

[Edited at 2021-05-04 13:24 GMT]

[Edited at 2021-05-04 13:24 GMT]

UTF8 range for Chinese | @Esperantisto

Samuel Murray — Tue, 04 May 2021 11:40:00 +0000

Forum: Localization
Topic: UTF8 range for Chinese
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Esperantisto

[quote]esperantisto wrote:
Here is the range that I use (even though you have already found, maybe, it will be handy)... [/quote]

Thanks, I'll give that a try as well (then I can use regex).

As it happens, my source text contained only about 1000 distinct Chinese characters, so testing for each of them one by one across 2000 segments was doable and took about 20 seconds only (not including the time it took to script it in AutoIt, of course). I'm curious if a regex approach would be quicker (not counting preprocessing time).

UTF8 range for Chinese | My range

esperantisto — Tue, 04 May 2021 11:29:00 +0000

Forum: Localization
Topic: UTF8 range for Chinese
Poster: esperantisto
Post title: My range

Here is the range that I use (even though you have already found, maybe, it will be handy):

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UTF8 range for Chinese

Samuel Murray — Tue, 04 May 2021 10:31:00 +0000

Forum: Localization
Topic: UTF8 range for Chinese
Poster: Samuel Murray

Hello everyone

I have a file in which some segments contain Chinese characters. I need to identify these segments, so I'm hoping I can use a search for the specific Unicode characters that are Chinese. Can anyone clarify for me what is the UTF8 character range for Chinese characters?

Thanks
Samuel

Added: found it, under "CJK scripts and symbols" here:
[url removed] (Unicode)#Basic_Multilingual_Plane

However, I discovered that searching for the presence of all of these characters would be very inefficient, so instead I converted all my source text to one character per line and then removed duplicate lines, to get a list of all characters used in the source text. Then I just deleted non-Chinese characters, and thus had a much smaller list of characters to search (and no need to search hexadecimally either).

[Edited at 2021-05-04 11:00 GMT]