Hi Massimo > Does anyone know if a Tcl native tool exists for comparing European > languages strings irrespective of the accents (or any other character > modifier) that might appear in them? (you English speakers, lucky guys > speaking a language that fits the base ASCII code, don't you have any > mercy for us? ;-))
Nope. The best I found was sth like this: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/remove+diacritic, which then allows to compare the strings w/ diacritics removed... Is that what you mean by "Tcl native"? ;-) Hth Ronnie -- We innovate. You win. https://netcetera.com Ronnie Brunner | ronnie.brun...@netcetera.com | T +41 44 297 59 79 | Netcetera AG | 8040 Zürich | Switzerland | https://netcetera.com |