Converting accented characters to ASCII 128

[paul@researchware.com]

Does anyone have a code snippet for converting accented characters to lower (<128) ASCII equivalents? Example: ë to e OR À to A and so on?

Any help is much appreciated

[bn]

Paul,
welcome to the forum.
I dont have such a function handy, it would be easy to do it yourself.
make a field and a button. In the button you put

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on mouseUp 
    repeat with i = 128 to 255
        put numtochar(i) & "," after field 1
    end repeat
    delete last char of field 1 -- comma
end mouseUp

Now you group your high ASCII characters like

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Ä,Ã…,À,Ã,Â,Ã

[paul@researchware.com]

Thanks. That's what I came up with after a couple Google searches for algorithms to do thsi and found most all were table lookups. He're the function I wrote if it helps any one else:

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function toASCII128 pText
  local tAccents, tASCII, tSpecials, tText, tChar
  
  put "ÀÃ

[Mark]

Hi Paul,

You probably need to make two diffrent look-up tables, for Mac and Windows.

Best,

Mark