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Re: case conversion for European characters, help!

#17909
From: Ed Tecot
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1987 01:01
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In article <6817@dartvax.UUCP> earleh@dartvax.UUCP (Earle R. Horton) writes:
>Anyone undertaken the task of writing case-conversion functions that
>handle ALL Mac characters correctly?  (option-s, a-umlaut, etc.)  Will
>the correctness of said functions vary with country?

Yes, it's called Transliterate, and it's documented on page 17 of the Script
Manager section of IM Vol V.

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From: tecot@apple.UUCP (Ed Tecot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: case conversion for European characters, help!
Message-ID: <1447@apple.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Aug-87 21:01:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  6 21:01:44 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Aug-87 15:21:27 EDT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA
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Keywords: toupper(), tolower(), isalpha(), etc().