I appologize, I should have read your mail more carefully, I've missed the point. Of course you are right, those codes are upper and lower case of the same "weird" (in ANSI codepage) char, and contains() and offset() both ignore cases. I don't know why I hadn't thought of that simple solution before. Thanks for opening my eyes.
Sorry, director, for this calumny ;-) valentin roymeo wrote: > I just tested this on the PC.... > > those are the upper and lower case s with a reversed ^ over them. > S and s > > This is confirmed by my HTML Reference book (up to HTML 4): > > Š in HTML is Uppercase S with canon (nonstandard) > š in HTML is Lowercase s with canon (nonstandard) > > along with the note: > > "Note: in the standard, the values from 127 to 159 are not > assigned. Authors are advised not to use them. Many of them only > work > under windows or produce different characters on other operating > systems or > with different default font sets." > -- p 1008 in HTML: The Complete Reference, Second Edition, �1999 > > I believe the regular place for the lowercase umlat characters are: > 0228 = � > 0235 = � > 0239 = � > 0246 = � > 0252 = � > those characters have been typed in on the numeric keypad while > holding the > ALT key on a PC, so those numbers certainly work for me on a WinPC. > > I suggest you make sure you're using the correct character reference. > > (and when someone has a suggestion or question about what you're > doing, you > might consider double-checking your info...) > > r��me� > > At 12:04 AM 4/9/2004, you wrote: >> hi daniel, >> >> no, those are the mac char codes for the german special chars "�" (a >> umlaut) and "�" (o umlaut), both lower case. >> >> valentin >> >>> In this case, is it possible that these two characters (138 and 154) >>> are lower and upper case versions of one another? >>> >> >> [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go >> to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the >> list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with >> programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > --------------------------------- > roymeo(AT)brokenoffcarantenna.com > --------------------------------- > i used to love you > back when you wrote poetry > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go > to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email > [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with > programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
