Converting from unicode to ASCII

[Devin Asay]

Hi Jacque,

Have you looked at the normalizeText function? I’m not sure that would help, but maybe it’s a start.

But it that doesn’t help, and if nobody ever sees the filenames, why not just loop through the string and delete anything that’s not in ASCII range?

Devin

> On Sep 22, 2020, at 4:48 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a stack with an index. When a user clicks a line, a handler uses the clicktext to create a file name which is always the clicktext plus the ".livecode" extension. The stack is then downloaded from an AWS server and displayed.
> 
> We are now translating some stacks to other languages which require unicode text. AWS recommends not using accented characters in file names, so we need to translate the clicktext into plain ASCII.
> 
> Is there a good way to do that without using a lookup table or metadata? The file names doesn't need to make sense syntactically. For example,
> 
>   l’Académie française -> lAcademiefrancaise.livecode
> 
> ...or similar, whatever works. The user will never see the file name.
> 
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
> 
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Devin Asay
Director
Office of Digital Humanities
Brigham Young University