Stripping accents from my string

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So here’s something kind of amazing. The Mac’s internal normalization fails the unicode.org unit test.

And my normalization fails on Windows.

And the Windows native normalization causes a hard crash.

Other than that, it’s going swimmingly.

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Well, at least I got my code working on Windows. It seems to be a difference in how some characters are processed through the Characters iterator. I think. Splitting the characters via Split( "" ) fixed the problem.

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And I fixed the Windows crash, only to find that a number of tests fail there too.

I wonder if I should scrap the native normalization functions entirely in favor of my tested, but slightly slower, function…

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If you like the cleaner look of a Select/Case construction, one trick is to do as below:

Select Case True
  
Case mName = "janvier"
  aMonth = 1
  
Case Left(mName, 2) = "fe"
  aMonth = 2
  
Case mName = "mars" 
  aMonth = 3
  
Case mName = "avril"
  aMonth = 4
  
Case mName = "mai"
  aMonth = 5
  
Case mName = "juin" 
  aMonth = 6
  
Case mName = "juillet" 
  aMonth = 7
  
Case Left(mName, 2) = "ao" 
  aMonth = 8
  
Case mName = "septembre"
  aMonth = 9
  
Case mName = "octobre"
  aMonth = 10
  
Case mName = "novembre"
  aMonth = 11
  
Case Left(mName, 2) = "de" 
  aMonth = 12
  
Case Else
  
  aMonth = 0 // Will generate a wrong date !
  
End Select
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FYI, I’ve released my Unicode Normalization code in the M_String package, available here:

http://www.mactechnologies.com/index.php?page=downloads#m_string

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