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From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: UprString problem.
Message-ID: <17426@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 30 Nov 89 00:27:59 GMT
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In article <14765@well.UUCP> svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol) writes:
>In article <17296@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu
	(Earle R. Horton) writes:
>>
>> [trying to build translation tables]
>>
>>     Everything works fine, except that UprString() converts '`'
>>(back-quote) to lower case 'a'.
...
>        Actually Transliterate has the same problem, which we also were 
>fortunate(?) to discover this week why trying to determine why you couldn't
>do a Wait for Text '`' in MicroPhone II...We use Transliterate for our upper
>casing (if it exists on the machine, otherwise we use UprString) and found 
>the same problem '`' -> 'a' as well.. (Also happens with 6.0.4 US and Swedish
>if it makes you feel any better (on Mac II's, SE/30's, etc.)).

     LwrText seems to be OK.  At least it works correctly on U.S. and
Deutsch systems I have, including doing '`' properly.  LwrText is new,
however, and I think you need System 6.0 for it to work.  (One can use
LwrText to generate a table for upper casing.)  I decided to include a
mechanism to allow users to override entries in the translation tables
I generate, anyway.  I found that even something as basic as an
"ess-tset" (Deutsch double-s as in "Strassburg") doesn't count for a
letter unless you have 6.0.4 and use the Script Manager.  I also
included a search for the anomalous triplet, '`' -> 'a' -> 'A', and
demote the '`' to punctuation if found.

Earle R. Horton