Important: The information in this document is obsolete and should not be used for new development.
Modifying Characters and Diacritical Marks
This section provides details on text routines that you can use to modify the characters
in text:
The following four routines use tables in the string-manipulation (
- The
UpperString
procedure converts any lowercase letters in a Pascal string to their uppercase equivalents.UpperString
uses the Macintosh file system string-manipulation rules, which means that it only works properly for Roman characters with codes through $D8.
'itl2'
) resource to perform their character-mapping operations. This allows you to customize their operation for different countries.
- The
LowercaseText
procedure converts any uppercase characters in a text string into their lowercase equivalents, making use of the conversion rules for the specified script system.- The
UppercaseText
procedure converts any lowercase characters in a text string into their uppercase equivalents, making use of the conversion rules for the specified script system.- The
StripDiacritics
procedure strips diacritical characters from a text string, making use of the conversion rules for the specified script system.- The
UppercaseStripDiacritics
procedure strips diacritical marks and converts lowercase characters into their uppercase equivalents in a text string, making use of the conversion rules for the specified script system.
Subtopics
- UpperString
- LowercaseText
- UppercaseText
- StripDiacritics
- UppercaseStripDiacritics