If you want to do operations on diacritical-laden text that ignores the
diacritical marks, one obvious solution would be a function that replaces
diacritical'ed characters with their plain equivalents. Once you've done that
job, something like this might work...
Two constants are required. First, construct a string that consists of all
possible diacritical'ed characters, and put it into a variable called
"FancyChar". Next, replace all the diacritical'ed characters in FancyChar
with their non-diacriticaled equivalents; the resulting string goes into a
variable called "PlainChar".
function StripDiacriticals DaText
put 0 into DaKount
repeat with each character Dia of FancyChar
add 1 to DaKount
put offset (Dia, DaText) into Zelda
put char DaKount of PlainChar into BoringChar
repeat while Zelda <> 0
put BoringChar into char Zelda of DaText
end repeat
end repeat
return DaText
end StripDiacriticals
This is heavily HyperCard influenced; I haven't messed with MetaCard
enough to know whether there are any subtle differences that would make this
function misbehave in MC/Rev. Be that as it may, the underlying logic should
be fairly clear...
Hope this helps!
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