OpenEuphoria

Re: Small feature request for future EU versions

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Oct 27, 2004
• 670 views

Igor Kachan wrote:
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> Derek Parnell wrote:
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> > I have a generic case conversion that can work for most alphabets.
> > I'll submit it to the contributions page.
> 
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> I have downloaded yours library, it works for me, thanks.

You are welcome.

> But it seems to me, your function can not make the *selective*
> conversion of bilingual texts of the same code page,
> but of different alphabets.

I'm sorry but I don't understand what you are saying. What does 
"*selective* conversion" mean? 

I think by "bilingual texts of the same code page, but of different
alphabets." you mean some text in which there is a mixture of characters
from different alphabets, but each character is still from the same code
page. 

I believe my functions can handle that. Something like 

  "Outside window = fenêtre extérieur: garçon = boy"

should come out from Obj_upper() as 

  "OUTSIDE WINDOW = FENÊTRE EXTÉRIEUR: GARÇON = BOY"

So long as each character has a unique code point in the code page, 
regardless of its language, my functions can help. 

> Say, I can run my stuff the following way:
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
> text = case_la(Lo, text)        -- to get all pure Latin letters lower-case
> text = case_ru(Lo, text, "win") -- to get all common Russian/Ukrainian
> letters lower-case
> text = case_ua(Up, text, "win") -- to get all pure Ukrainian letters
> upper-case
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> Couldn't you?

No, because I don't know those alphabets. However, you could using my
functions. Use the SetCase procedure to define the mappings for those
alphabets. Something like ...

SetCase( "абвгд...эюя",
"АБВГД . . . ЭЮЯ", -1)

and then use the Windows Cyrillic code page to get the correct display 
glyphs.

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia