Re: [libreoffice-users] BASIC StrComp and tricky Unicode (Turkish, for example)

On 01/01/2015 02:16 PM, Luuk wrote:
> On 1-1-2015 18:51, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> > I am updating some of my documentation on using BASIC with LO and I
> > wondered if case-sensitive comparisons are done with locale specific
> > information. I am in the US with ENGLISH locale, and I am not certain
> > how easily I can test this sort of thing, but I expect that a simple
> > compare such as
> >
> > Sub StrCompTest
> >    Print StrComp("ı", "I", 0)  ' compare Turkish dotless i with upper
> > case i
> >    Print StrComp("i", "I", 0)  ' compare lower case i to upper case i
> > End Sub
> >
> > In my locale, this returns -1 and 0. With a Turkish locale, I expect
> > that the first compare will return a 0, but I am unsure how to test
> > this. Any insights into this?
>
> I'm not an expert in this, but this page:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_and_dotless_I
>
> Shows there is a small, and a capital version of the 'Turkish dotless i'
>
> StrComp("i","I",0) only returns 0 for the small, and the capital i,
> and not for the i's with diacritics   (í,ì,ï, ....)
>
> I think the 'Turkish dotless i' should be treated as an i with a 
> diacritic.

The code contains the Turkish dotless i, but it fails (as it should) on 
my computer. I am hesitant (perhaps lazy) to mess with my computer's 
locale since I don't have a good handle on the implications of changing 
it or whether or not I just need to change it in an LO configuration 
somewhere. I also don't want to try installing a Turkish version of 
things since I would not be able to read anything. Hopefully someone who 
is sufficiently familiar with these issues (say because they are turkish 
or are simply aware of other examples that will fail in my locale and 
work in theirs) can speak up. I do appreciate the wiki link, and it does 
confirm that this should work if my locale were Turkish and if LO deals 
with it correctly.

Andrew



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