Index talk:Eastern Book Company & Ors vs D.B. Modak & Anr.pdf
Latest comment: 7 years ago by Beleg Tâl in topic Escape codes
Escape codes[edit]
The text uses various escape codes, but they don't seem to be a normal standard. For example, some names are preceded by \026 and some titles are surrounded by \023 ... \024. I suspect the latter are meant to be italics. I looked up other copies of this text and there are two general ways that these have been dealt with: 1. to ignore them, and 2. to treat them as ASCII code points in octal. The latter gives such rendering as "No. 1 � Eastern Book Company is the law report �Supreme Court Cases� (hereinafter called �SCC�)" so I have gone with the former. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 13:34, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
- \022 is definitely an apostrophe, either ' or ’. It's not an ASCII point though (that would be decimal , octal , or hexadecimal ") —Beleg Tâl (talk) 13:46, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
- @Beleg Tâl: As far as I can understand, \022 = single quote/apostrophe; \023 = left double quote; \024 = right double quote. These are the curly forms, I think, so, not available on the keyboard. \026 is probably emdash. There is also a \005 (see here). I think these need to be interpreted as characters not available on the typewriter keyboard. Hrishikes (talk) 01:41, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
- @Mahitgar: Can you shed some light on this? Hrishikes (talk) 01:59, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
- @Hrishikes: This site seems to corroborate your theory that they represent dashes and quotation marks. If possible I'd like to find a definitive answer of what exactly they represent. Otherwise, transcribing the actual escape codes or leaving them out entirely is probably better than guessing, in my opinion. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 12:23, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
- On the other hand, I'm convinced regarding \022 \023 \024 and \026, so I'll proceed with this one if there are no other escape codes in this particular document.
Per WS:MOS and past consensus, we'll also update curly to straight quotes and remove spaces around dashes.On second thought, I'll transcribe as written and let other editors who feel strongly on straightening quotes make the change if they want. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 12:32, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
- On the other hand, I'm convinced regarding \022 \023 \024 and \026, so I'll proceed with this one if there are no other escape codes in this particular document.
- @Hrishikes: This site seems to corroborate your theory that they represent dashes and quotation marks. If possible I'd like to find a definitive answer of what exactly they represent. Otherwise, transcribing the actual escape codes or leaving them out entirely is probably better than guessing, in my opinion. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 12:23, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
- heh, page 30: "22. Series of dots in the raw texts (i.e., \005\005\005\005..) are replaced with ellipsis (i.e., \005)." —Beleg Tâl (talk) 19:13, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
- @Mahitgar: Can you shed some light on this? Hrishikes (talk) 01:59, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
- @Beleg Tâl: As far as I can understand, \022 = single quote/apostrophe; \023 = left double quote; \024 = right double quote. These are the curly forms, I think, so, not available on the keyboard. \026 is probably emdash. There is also a \005 (see here). I think these need to be interpreted as characters not available on the typewriter keyboard. Hrishikes (talk) 01:41, 15 March 2017 (UTC)