Thanks a lot to you and to kerry, buzz and colin.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Griffin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 9:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: <lingo-l> uppercase
>> Some people get into using ASCII codes instead, but I think they're
>> masochists.
>
> Well done, Colin.
>
> Masochistic, and, if they're working in a language other than English,
> buggy.
>
> The lazy way is to subtract 32 from the ASCII value. E.g.:
>
> put numtochar(chartonum("a") - 32)
> "A"
>
> Colin's method will work with any language, providing you use the
> appropriate alphabet.
>
> But a Kerry post wouldn't be complete without pointing out that ASCII
> is
> an outdated, 7-bit standard. English Windows use ANSI, an 8-bit
> standard
> equivalent to the ISO 8859.1 standard.
If you only need those characters for display and REALLY want to be
lazy, use a text member and set its fontstyle:
member(textmember).fontstyle = [#allcaps]
Of course, this precludes checking those strings for accuracy if you
are checking for case-sensitivity (the character codes remain the same,
you're just displaying the other case).
There's also a fontstyle called #smallcaps, and one called #lowercase,
and a few others that have escaped my instant memory. They are doc'ed
somewhere (probably an appendix to one of the ref books I own).
Not sure how well this works with upper ansi characters - haven't
tested.
2cents,
kurt
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