Hi jbv,
This one of a number of gaps that exist in the jungle of character processing
in LiveCode.
I don't think there is a 'diacriticSensitive' property. Some part of LiveCode
are clever about accents, see e.g.
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15312
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15443
As you note, it would be useful if there was a built-in function to strip
diacritics, which has been requested (for 14 years now):
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6450
One trick that can be used in some contexts is to put the text into a field,
retrieve the htmlText of the fields - which encodes many accented characters
as entity names - and reduce these entity names back to the unaccented character.
There's also an enhancement request (pending for over 18 years) to expose this
functionality without the need to use a field - useful for many purposes, not
just for stripping accents:
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1372
This especially ought to be a cheap enhancement, since LC evidently
incorporates the necessary tables already.
Putting text through html entities is not a perfect solution to implementing a
"stripDiacritics" function, because e.g. you might render "—" as "m";
but as far as I know, currently it's either that or encode your own tables.
Ben
On 16/09/2022 15:10, jbv via use-livecode wrote:
Hi list,
Is there a way to ignore accented characters in LC, like in mySQL
for instance ?
Here's an example : I need these 2 array items below to be considered
as 1 single entity :
add 1 to myArray["interprétation"]
add 1 to myArray["interpretation"]
Of course, I can write a function that removes accents, but I was
wondering if there was a built-in function in LC to do that, in a
similar logic as "set the casesentive to false" for instance.
Thanks you in advance.
jbv
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