Having trouble with accentuated letters

zedologic · Post by **zedologic** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:26 am

Hi!

I have a proc that is supposed to get the accents off its input strings, like this example proc : proc unacc {str} {return [string map {á a} $str]}

Now let's say I put an 'á' into a file, and then use unacc [gets ...] the proc will convert it to 'a' correctly. But if I try to use it with binds, or through DCC (using .tcl ...) it just returns an 'á' like the 'á' in the string map function didn't the 'á' I just typed in.

Does anybody have an idea how I could solve this problem ? (right now I'm writing everything into temporary files before processing, but this just does not seem to be the right solution

Thanks,
Zed.

strikelight · Post by **strikelight** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:07 pm

Try looking at the tcl manpage entry for "encoding".

zedologic · Post by **zedologic** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 3:30 am

Thanks strikelight!

[string map {á a} [encoding convertto iso8859-1 $str]] works fine.

Zed.