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Fold Characters Substitutions

The Re-encode statement's Fold Characters mode replaces various Unicode characters with their ISO-8859-1 equivalents. The following substitutions are by default performed:



From TextFrom GraphicFrom Hex ValueTo TextTo GraphicTo Hex Value
Grave accent1`60Apostrophe'27
Acute accent1´B4Apostrophe'27
Double acute accent˝2DDQuotation mark"22
Hyphen‐2010Hyphen-minus-2D
Non breaking hyphen‑2011Hyphen-minus-2D
Figure dash‒2012Hyphen-minus-2D
En dash–2013Hyphen-minus-2D
Em dash—2014Hyphen-minus-2D
Left single quotation mark‘2018Apostrophe'27
Right single quotation mark’2019Apostrophe'27
Single high reversed-9 quotation mark‛201BApostrophe'27
Left double quotation mark“201CQuotation mark"22
Right double quotation mark”201DQuotation mark"22
Double high reversed-9 quotation mark‟201FQuotation mark"22
Double low-9 quotation mark„201EQuotation mark"22
Prime′2032Apostrophe'27
Double prime″2033Quotation mark"22
  1. While this is a valid ISO-8859-1 character, it is typically used to represent a single quote.

You can replace or add to the default substitutions by creating a Replacement Set which has been given the special Fold Character status (F). If a Replacement Set with the special Fold Character status can be located its contents will be used to define the transformations. If such a set cannot be found, the default values displayed in the above table will be used.

If you wish to create a set with the built in substitutions to start with, you can do so via the Create a Set With the Default Fold Character Values context menu item. Note that the created set will not automatically be supplied the special Fold Character status.

When analyzing the fold character replacement set, the following applies: