Re: help with objectscriiipt again ...

[Timur Safin]

The proper/fastest way for doing such single-to-multiple letters conversions is using CNLS 
 utility to create customer translation table (say "yNoUmlauts"), and the to use 
$ZCVT(text,"O","yNoUmlauts") for translation of the input text. (And/or 
$ZCVT(text,"I","yNoUmlauts") for translation it back, if it ever made any sense and possible).

If I would be from Germany, and know German language much better (besides these couple of 
sentences I'm aware of) then I could be of better help here, and might be create this 
customized CNLS translation table. But it is not that case. I could only point to the 
DOCBOOK KnowledgeBase article concerning this process briefly:

http://127.0.0.1:1972/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls?KEY=ANLS_Translation
Good Luck,
Timur
Dipl.-Ing. Werner Riegler wrote:
hi,
how can I simply replace any german umlaut "ü" with "ue" and so on
set newstr = $TRANSLATE(str, "ü", "ue") ... does not do it - right ?
so what should I use ?
(why isnt it as simple as PHP or C ? ;-[)
help
werner