Hi,

  Obviously this is aimed at RZ but I'd like to open a discussion on the topic
too.

  For years those of us that program in languages OTHER than English have had
to create/use our own versions of UCASE and LCASE. This is no great task, even
when attacked in ASM, but it does make coding for library routines a bit of a
mess having to have one copy for each language.

  What I propose, if it is possible, RZ, is for you to give us a 128 character
window into the UCASE/LCASE strings used in the PB compilers. This would allow
us to use the native functions regardless of which language we were working
in. The 128 characters mentioned would support only the 'back half' of the
ASCii sets wherein the non-English characters reside.

  What'ch'think?

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In Win32, there are numerous functions that use LOCALE's to handle
multiple language/character functions... Even the humble LISTBOX can
use a LOCALE for it's sorting.

Have you looked at those (obviously PB/DOS can't use these though).  

Lance
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You're saying that UCASE and LCASE use LOCALEs? How?

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Don,

Windows has two built-in functions for converting strings to uppercase or
lowercase based on the local language settings:

CharUpperBuff()
CharLowerBuff()

Here's a PB/CC example for CharUpperBuff()

DECLARE FUNCTION CharUpperBuff LIB "USER32.DLL" ALIAS "CharUpperBuffA" (lpsz
AS ASCIIZ, BYVAL cchLength AS LONG) AS LONG

FUNCTION PbMain() AS LONG

  s$ = COMMAND$
  CharUpperBuff BYVAL STRPTR(s$), LEN(s$)
  PRINT s$

END FUNCTION

PowerBASIC doesn't use them because they're slow and PowerBASIC's all about
speed.  We're considering changing that in the future, but for now, you'll
have to call the API yourself.

--Dave

Well , i had some troubles/differences with uppercase in PB/DLL20.
This might be subject to test further, i didn't need it at this time but
there's a difference between VB and PB.

(I think it was ? ( chr$(137) ) and the uppercase should be the same but
just capital)