Umlauts

I'm so sorry Pat...rick.

Seems like UBB is able to handle em.

Malte

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Hey Patty,

you should have had this problem before

Later,

Malte

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Malte Ubl - www.Boardzilla.org
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Pardon my ignorance, but what are German Umlauts?

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Malte

I got a weired solution to this problem:

$form = form input = "ä"; # data from a web form
$file = file input = "ä"; data read from a file

$file ~= /$form/ # -> false

$form ~= s/ä/§§§/g;
$file ~= s/ä/§§§/g;

$file ~= /$form/ # -> true

This is just example code, so it might have some syntax errors, but thats not the point.

Why does the substitute operator match something which the simple match operator doesnt match???

Malte

[This message has been edited by Malte (edited 27 January 2000).]

You could convert the string into it's ascii value.

So

$form = "ä";
$formascii = join('', unpack('c*', $form));

$file = "ä";
$fileascii = join('', unpack('c*', $file));

than do your regexp.

Hope that helps

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