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Chapter 5 - Text Utilities / Text Utilities Reference

Routines

Modifying Characters and Diacritical Marks

This section provides details on text routines that you can use to modify the characters
in text:

• 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.

The following four routines use tables in the string-manipulation ('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.

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Subtopics

UpperString

LowercaseText

UppercaseText

StripDiacritics

UppercaseStripDiacritics