[Language] Help with (non-english) characters!

It might comes from the font you use to display text on your screen, I use occidental (ISO), I think that this is a european norm, that might be the reason why it looks funny on your computer.

Also, do you want to include the greek symbols?
 

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Blacksad said:
It might comes from the font you use to display text on your screen, I use occidental (ISO), I think that this is a european norm, that might be the reason why it looks funny on your computer.
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Perhaps. Does the OE "œ" look different to you - less like "o" + "e" and more like "c" + "e"?

Blacksad said:
Also, do you want to include the greek symbols?
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No, not really.

This is actually a collection of symbols that might be used to name characters (among other things).
 

The letter ß has no upper-case version. It never appears at the beginning of a word. When writing whole words in caps, ß is usually replaced with ss.
 



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Sorry, it's kind of like having someone come up to you and ask you to tell them the rules to D&D. :D

Short answer - the Unicode people have been working on it for 10 years and they're still finding new ones. The "Proposed New Characters" page is particularly a must-see.

If you're doing character generation or something, I think the easy way is to use the Unicode support in the operating system and let the system programmers deal with it.
 

tarchon said:
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Sorry, it's kind of like having someone come up to you and ask you to tell them the rules to D&D. :D

Short answer - the Unicode people have been working on it for 10 years and they're still finding new ones. The "Proposed New Characters" page is particularly a must-see.

If you're doing character generation or something, I think the easy way is to use the Unicode support in the operating system and let the system programmers deal with it.
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Here's the problem - I want to disallow non-letter characters. No "-", no "&", no "€". I'm willing to live with a far-from-complete character set, but can't live with even a single nonletter.
 

Hi Charles,

Just to chime in, in German the: ö ü ä and Ö Ä Ü are very important. Also of course ß... where would I be if I couldn't order a Maß of beer for example ;)

Hope this is what you were looking for.

-Will
 

CRGreathouse said:


Here's the problem - I want to disallow non-letter characters. No "-", no "&", no "€". I'm willing to live with a far-from-complete character set, but can't live with even a single nonletter.
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Usually, there will be an isalpha() function that does this reasonably well. It depends on what APIs you have access to though. In VC++ 5, you'll probably want to use iswalpha(), which supports Unicode characters. They have others for MS's "multibyte characters," which I believe are for their own encoding systems. Java has isLetter(). Unfortunately, some implementations of these include things like dollar signs, but Unicode does have a classification system that will identify those. In Java you can use Character.getType() to examine the type and make your own filter.
 


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