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Posted: April 23 2011 at 17:58 | IP Logged Quote patrickm
Hello,
I am looking for a way to convert European characters to normal ASCII characters in PowerHome.

I listen to a lot of classical music and the meta data is full of vowels and other characters that are not displayed properly on my keypads.

Any help would be appreciated.
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Posted: April 29 2011 at 13:04 | IP Logged Quote dhoward
Patrick,

Probably would need to write a function or macro to do a search and replace type of action. Can you post some samples of what you see along with the equivalent of what you'd like to see and I can see what I can come up with.

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Posted: May 19 2011 at 12:07 | IP Logged Quote patrickm
Hi Dave,
Here is a link to some of the type of characters I'm seeing in the meta data:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Latin_character_sets_(c omputing)

http://www.biega.com/special-char.html

Here are some typical examples:

Original -> Desired

Freischütz -> Freischutz

Kaliště -> Kaliste

Géza -> Geza

Thanks,
Patrick
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Posted: May 22 2011 at 16:55 | IP Logged Quote dhoward
Patrick,

Cant think of a really good way to do this other than to check for every possible instance and replace as needed. An example of the three you posted above would be:

ph_replaceallmulti(ph_getvar_s(1,1),"ü~255š~255é","u~255s~25 5e")

This would handle any instance of what you posted and assumes that the text you want to have searched and replace is stored in [LOCAL1].

Hope this helps,

Dave.
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Posted: May 22 2011 at 17:22 | IP Logged Quote patrickm
Thanks Dave,
I was hoping there was some kind of unicode function or something that would have worked.

Patrick

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