Unicode to Ascii Substitution

[Monte Goulding]

I haven't looked at what the engine does for international sort but it's complicated because some languages different ordering of the same characters. Given there's no way to specify the language I suspect this is the problem...

On 02/11/2013, at 9:05 AM, Ender Nafi Elekcioglu <endernafi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I have to sort a list of books whose names contain diacritic Latin chars like “ç", "ğ", etc.
> *sort international* works only partially, I mean not for all characters 
> {for example, it puts “ö” after “o”, but doesn’t put “ç” after “c”}
> 
> So, I thought; I can place a hidden column into the table on-the-fly which has the book names without diacritical chars.
> Here is a sample code of the iterating script:
> _set the useUnicode to true
> _replace numToChar(199) with numToChar(67) in tBookName
> which should replace all “Ç” letters with “C” in that particular book’s name.
> 
> Except, it doesn’t :)
> 
> I’ve tried both UTF-8 table {http://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl} 
> and UTF-16 table {http://www.fileformat.info/info/charset/UTF-16/list.htm}.
> I’m converting hex values of that tables to decimals, of course.
> 
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks for any help…
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> ~ Ender Nafi
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