What about just converting to UTF8. Wouldn’t that coerce it into ASCII? — Scott Morrow Elementary Software (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) web https://elementarysoftware.com/ email sc...@elementarysoftware.com
> On Sep 22, 2020, at 3:48 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > I have a stack with an index. When a user clicks a line, a handler uses the > clicktext to create a file name which is always the clicktext plus the > ".livecode" extension. The stack is then downloaded from an AWS server and > displayed. > > We are now translating some stacks to other languages which require unicode > text. AWS recommends not using accented characters in file names, so we need > to translate the clicktext into plain ASCII. > > Is there a good way to do that without using a lookup table or metadata? The > file names doesn't need to make sense syntactically. For example, > > l’Académie française -> lAcademiefrancaise.livecode > > ...or similar, whatever works. The user will never see the file name. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
