Hi :)
How about sending the question to the
l...@global.libreoffice.org
mailing list to try to reach the international translators. It is very
quiet on that list at the moment and has been for over a week.
Regards from
Tom :)
On 1 January 2015 at 22:03, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <and...@pitonyak.org>
wrote:
>
> On 01/01/2015 02:16 PM, Luuk wrote:
>
>> On 1-1-2015 18:51, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I am updating some of my documentation on using BASIC with LO and I
>>> wondered if case-sensitive comparisons are done with locale specific
>>> information. I am in the US with ENGLISH locale, and I am not certain
>>> how easily I can test this sort of thing, but I expect that a simple
>>> compare such as
>>>
>>> Sub StrCompTest
>>> Print StrComp("ı", "I", 0) ' compare Turkish dotless i with upper
>>> case i
>>> Print StrComp("i", "I", 0) ' compare lower case i to upper case i
>>> End Sub
>>>
>>> In my locale, this returns -1 and 0. With a Turkish locale, I expect
>>> that the first compare will return a 0, but I am unsure how to test
>>> this. Any insights into this?
>>>
>>>
>> I'm not an expert in this, but this page:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_and_dotless_I
>>
>> Shows there is a small, and a capital version of the 'Turkish dotless i'
>>
>> StrComp("i","I",0) only returns 0 for the small, and the capital i,
>> and not for the i's with diacritics (í,ì,ï, ....)
>>
>> I think the 'Turkish dotless i' should be treated as an i with a
>> diacritic.
>>
>>
> The code contains the Turkish dotless i, but it fails (as it should) on my
> computer. I am hesitant (perhaps lazy) to mess with my computer's locale
> since I don't have a good handle on the implications of changing it or
> whether or not I just need to change it in an LO configuration somewhere. I
> also don't want to try installing a Turkish version of things since I would
> not be able to read anything. Hopefully someone who is sufficiently
> familiar with these issues (say because they are turkish or are simply
> aware of other examples that will fail in my locale and work in theirs) can
> speak up. I do appreciate the wiki link, and it does confirm that this
> should work if my locale were Turkish and if LO deals with it correctly.
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
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