[comp.sys.mac.hypercard] Comparing words w/ accents

reeck@lclark.UUCP (David Reeck) (07/05/89)

	We are working on a language stack here. We have run into one
problem. Hypercard thinks that 'i' and '(accent mark)i' are the same thing.
Is there any easy way around this? charToNum comes up with an acceptable 
answer, but I would hate to have to do that to whole words as slow as Hyper
talk is, an XFNC would be OK, but I would rather not have to write it. 
	So. Anybody have any easy work arounds I have missed?

			Thanks very much!
Dave Reeck REECK@LCLARK.BITNET	!tektronix!reed!lclark!reeck

Barry.Chern@f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Barry Chern) (07/15/89)

If I have a vague understanding of your problem, you should not have to
use numToChar on every letter of a word. Why not check on whether any
words contain the charToNum in question and use the offset to find its
position?


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