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- E! for Windows - Technical Note #014
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- Searching strings containing accented characters
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- When searching for strings containing accented characters you may
- observe that E! will occasionally find unwanted strings. For example,
- if you are looking for strings containing Θ (accented e), E! will also
- find unaccented e characters. This is not a bug of E! but rather a
- specific behavior of Windows.
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- If your search in not case-sensitive, E! will convert strings to uppercase
- before comparing them. If the current font is an ANSI font, E! will use the
- Windows API (AnsiUpper) to make the translation. However, Windows will
- translate a lowercase accented e to an uppercase unaccented E. This is
- obviously confusing.
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- To prevent such problems from appearing, you just have to do a case-sensitive
- search.
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- Patrick Philippot
- 05/15/94
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