At 10:44 AM 10/27/00 -0200, you wrote:
>hi, lingoists
>there's an odd director behavior that i've found about lingo and letters
>with accents, that i'd like you to confirm. that's the case:
>i'm changing, from a behavior parameter, the member of a sprite, no big
>deal; all the members used are text sprites, and if the name of the member
>contains and accented letter AND the name is all written in capitals, if i
>don't write the accented word in capital in the parameter, i get an error
>alert, telling me that the member is not found. the only way to corrrect
>this is writing the accented letter exactly like the accented letter in
>the member's name. that's funny, because this parameter is a string,
>although it is held as a global. shouldn't lingo be not case sensitive?
>i've had issues with accented words in markers before, so i may presume
>that director does not handle very well stuff like that.
But accented characters are special characters, and aren't considered
normal letters (english bias). I'll bet that Director only considers A-Z
and a-z as identical and no other characters outside of those 46.
roymeo
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