Hello Ben,
Thank you for your detailed answer.
So far, I only have to deal with french text so I only need
a list of diacritic vowels and a list of the chars used as
replacement :
àâäéèêëîïôöùûüÿ
aaaeeeeiioouuuy
With a simple loop it is feasible and it doesn't slow down
my scripts significantly.
But indeed, a 'diacriticSensitive' property would be really
helpful.
jbv
Le 2022-09-27 06:22, Ben Rubinstein a écrit :
Hi jbv,
This one of a number of gaps that exist in the jungle of character
processing in LiveCode.
I don't think there is a 'diacriticSensitive' property. Some part of
LiveCode are clever about accents, see e.g.
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15312
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15443
As you note, it would be useful if there was a built-in function to
strip diacritics, which has been requested (for 14 years now):
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6450
One trick that can be used in some contexts is to put the text into a
field, retrieve the htmlText of the fields - which encodes many
accented characters as entity names - and reduce these entity names
back to the unaccented character.
There's also an enhancement request (pending for over 18 years) to
expose this functionality without the need to use a field - useful for
many purposes, not just for stripping accents:
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1372
This especially ought to be a cheap enhancement, since LC evidently
incorporates the necessary tables already.
Putting text through html entities is not a perfect solution to
implementing a "stripDiacritics" function, because e.g. you might
render "—" as "m"; but as far as I know, currently it's either
that or encode your own tables.
Ben
On 16/09/2022 15:10, jbv via use-livecode wrote:
Hi list,
Is there a way to ignore accented characters in LC, like in mySQL
for instance ?
Here's an example : I need these 2 array items below to be considered
as 1 single entity :
add 1 to myArray["interprétation"]
add 1 to myArray["interpretation"]
Of course, I can write a function that removes accents, but I was
wondering if there was a built-in function in LC to do that, in a
similar logic as "set the casesentive to false" for instance.
Thanks you in advance.
jbv
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