OpenEuphoria

Re: Caracters in other languages

• Posted by gertie at visionsix.com Jul 07, 2003
• 542 views

On 8 Jul 2003, at 8:53, Derek Parnell wrote:

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: <rml at rubis.trix.net>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Subject: Caracters in other languages
> 
> 
> Hi Euforians;
> 
>          I'm having problems with caracters with an accent in portuguese
> and euphoria. If I use uppercase, they are not changed to uppercase, they
> changed into spaces (or no asc caracters.)
> For example: =E9, =E7, =E3, =E1 and so on.
> The same happens when I use getc to read a txt file that cotains these
> caracters.
>          My computer is running win2000 in english, with locale in
> brazilian portuguese.
> 
>          Any suggestion ?
> 
> ---------
> Derek replies...
> 
> The Euphoria upper() and lower() functions only work for the English
> alphabet and only for ASCII character sets.

Annoying, isn't it? Mirc does the same.
 
> sequence UC,LC
> 
> UC =3D repeat(1, 255)
> for i =3D 1 to length(UC) do
>    UC[i] =3D i
> end for
> LC =3D UC
> UC['a'] =3D 'A'
> UC['b'] =3D 'B'


> . . .
> UC['=E9'] =3D '=C9'
> . . .
> LC['A'] =3D 'a'
> LC['B'] =3D 'b'
> . . .
> LC['=C9'] =3D '=E9'
> . . .
> 
> function Upper(object x)
>    if integer(x) and x > 0 and x < 256 then
>        return UC[x]
>    elsif sequence(x) then
>        for i =3D 1 to length(x) do
>            x[i] =3D Upper(x[i])
>        end for
>    end if
> end function
> 
> and similar for your Lower function.
> 
> These are slower than the Euphoria ones, but a lot more accurate.
> --=20

What is "=3D" in all the above, and why the $^& is it there? If Topica 
changed some Derek's code to "=3D", what other errors were introduced?

Kat