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Considering/Ignoring case
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Considering/Ignoring case


  • Subject: Considering/Ignoring case
  • From: Matthew Stuckwisch <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 23:58:59 -0600

I finally got Unicode support into my AS Studio application so that AS would stop erroring on Cyrillic and/or Runic text. Surprisingly, AS recognizes lowercase/uppercase for Cyrillic letters, and considering/ignoring the case of these works just like in traditional Roman script.

My problem now is in the Runic script, which makes up all of 2 of 31 letters of the Icelandic alphabet. Specifically, the characters designated by the HTML code &eth; and &thorn; (the list would eat it up if I typed it). While I could make a special special case for this, I thought I'd note it to the AppleScript team and also ask around if anyone knows of any really fast vanilla methods around it. FWIW, AS handles the case of ligatures properly, though almost all of the extended Roman diacriticals (okay, so that's another considering block, but still) do not work properly, for example, a y and an acute-accented-y do not match ignoring diacriticals according AS, nor does an s and a caron-s.

Food for thought, especially with Apple's push for internationalization of software.


Matthew Stuckwisch
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