International applications

[happyabc]

Will any member, experienced in internationalization, say what might be a good strategy for cases of the local text: (a) have different strings for different cases e.g. "Module" and "module" (b) have a single string e.g. "module" and capitalize it in code. The main problem I see with the latter course of action are how to secure a general purpose function as LCase etc. wont work for phrases and how would that function handle capitalization for different languages? On the other hand, creating differently capitaized strings of the same text seems so tedious e.g. "word processor", "Word processor", "Word Processor" etc.

 

[strongm]

>seems so tedious

Sadly, internationalization can indeed be tedious

 

[chiph]

Yes, it's tedious. As you've found, you can't use the LCase() and Ucase() functions, as they are pretty much US specific. Turkish is a tough language to do, as they have two letter "i"'s in their alphabet (one with a dot, one without, and they both have upper and lower-case versions).

Chip H.


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[LostInCode]

Check out the StrComp() function and do a binary comparison

 

[happyabc]

LostInCode: pl. elucidate.

 

[LostInCode]

> have different strings for different cases

Well, I may have mis-understood the issue.

>do a binary comparison
Rather, text comparison

If you are doing comparisons, then instead of comparing:

If LCase$(Text1.Text) = "SomeTHING" Then

try:

If StrComp(Text1.Text, "SomeTHING", vbCompareText) Then

It may help