Unicode Demystified

Chapter 14. Conversions and Transformations

Now that we've taken a good look at some of the most common and useful data structures and techniques for doing things with Unicode text, we'll put them to work to do some useful things with Unicode text.

In this chapter, we'll examine conversions and transformations on pieces of Unicode text. We'll study not only conversions among the various Unicode representations and between Unicode and other encoding standards, but also two other important types of transformations on Unicode text: converting cased text between uppercase and lowercase, and transliteration, the process of converting text from one script to another that is often used as the basis for accepting Unicode text as input (especially when ...