earleh@dartvax.UUCP (Earle R. Horton) (08/05/87)
Anyone undertaken the task of writing case-conversion functions that handle ALL Mac characters correctly? (option-s, a-umlaut, etc.) Will the correctness of said functions vary with country? Thanks in advance... -- ********************************************************************* *Earle R. Horton, H.B. 8000, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755 * *********************************************************************
barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) (08/05/87)
In article <6817@dartvax.UUCP> earleh@dartvax.UUCP (Earle R. Horton) writes: >Will the correctness of said functions vary with country? Yes, at least for French. In France, lowercase letters lose their accents when they are converted to uppercase. In Canada they keep them. --- Barry Margolin Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com seismo!think!barmar
tecot@apple.UUCP (Ed Tecot) (08/07/87)
In article <6817@dartvax.UUCP> earleh@dartvax.UUCP (Earle R. Horton) writes: >Anyone undertaken the task of writing case-conversion functions that >handle ALL Mac characters correctly? (option-s, a-umlaut, etc.) Will >the correctness of said functions vary with country? Yes, it's called Transliterate, and it's documented on page 17 of the Script Manager section of IM Vol V. _emt