Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!resnick
From: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: upper2lower()
Message-ID: <1991Feb17.192911.22844@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 17 Feb 91 19:29:11 GMT
References: <1991Feb16.212018.1987@sics.se>
Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Lines: 30

ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg) writes:

>  What's the right way to convert a letter from upper to lower case?
>For all letters A-Z, it's very easy. But how do I find the lower case
>version of "E" with acute accent?

>  There's another problem with letters like "E" with trema, which only exists
>in some fonts (e.g. Times), how do I know if the current font hasn't put
>something else in the last 40 positions?

In the Script Manager 2.0 docs, there are two routines declared:

Pascal:

Procedure UprText(textPtr: Ptr; len: Integer);
Procedure LwrText(textPtr: Ptr; len: Integer);

C:

pascal void UprText(Ptr textPtr, short len);
pascal void LwrText(Ptr textPtr, short len);

Each takes text up to 32K in length. For more compicated conversions, there
is the Transliterate function, documented in IM V-311.
--
Pete Resnick             (...so what is a mojo, and why would one be rising?)
Graduate assistant - Philosophy Department, Gregory Hall, UIUC
System manager - Cognitive Science Group, Beckman Institute, UIUC
Internet/ARPAnet/EDUnet  : resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu
BITNET (if no other way) : FREE0285@UIUCVMD