Replace accents

[John Dixon]

err... it does work under LC8.. just tried it
MacBook Pro, El Capitan, OSX 10.11.4

on mouseUp

put "öõÓÔÒÕÖúùû" into mytext



   

   put "áàâäãåÄÅÀÃéèêëÊËÈÉíìîïÍÎÏÌóòôöõÓÔÒÕÖúùûüÚÛÙÜÑñçÇ'" into accent

   put "aaaaaaAAAAeeeeEEEEiiiiIIIIoooooOOOOOuuuuUUUUNncC_" into noaccent

   put 0 into cpt

   repeat for each char i in accent

      add 1 to cpt

      replace i with char cpt of noaccent in myText

   end repeat



   

   put mytext



end mouseUp


it returned ... 

ooooooouuu


> From: ludovic.thebault at laposte.net
> Subject: Replace accents
> Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 14:59:12 +0200
> To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> 
> Hello,
> 
> This little scrip don't word with Livecode 7 and 8. I guess this is because Livecode work directly in unicode (the script work with Livecode 6).
> But how handle it in my script ?
> 
> put "áàâäãåÄÅÀÃéèêëÊËÈÉíìîïÍÎÏÌóòôöõÓÔÒÕÖúùûüÚÛÙÜÑñçÇ'" into accent
> put "aaaaaaAAAAeeeeEEEEiiiiIIIIoooooOOOOOuuuuUUUUNncC_" into noaccent
> put 0 into cpt
>    repeat for each char i in accent
>       add 1 to cpt
>       replace i with char cpt of noaccent in myText
>    end repeat
> 
> I've tried with uniDecode and uniencode without success
> 
> Thanks
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