Dealing with foreign characters?

[Hugh Janus]

Hi all,

I have an app that analyzes files based on their time stamp. However,
in the file names are often 'non-english' characters like letters with
accents and the spanish ñ. This causes my app to 'see' the filenames
wrong. For example, a file with the word 'español' in it is seen
first as 'espaol' and then later as espanol in my app.

Anyone know of a built-in way to deal with this characters? Is there a
way to strip accents and force VB to see an 'ñ' as an 'n' ? Or am I
going to have to do this the hard way and write a function than looks
for these characters?

Thanks

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Hugh Janus" <my*************@hotmail.com> schrieb:

I have an app that analyzes files based on their time stamp. However,
in the file names are often 'non-english' characters like letters with
accents and the spanish ñ. This causes my app to 'see' the filenames
wrong.

How does your application "see" the file names?

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Hugh,

As far as I know uses Spanish the same code set as every western European
language.
(1252). However have a look at these pages.

Unicode
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acad.../fontset.htm#b

OS systems
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/r...ocversion.mspx

I hope this helps a little bit?

Cor
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Hi all,

I have an app that analyzes files based on their time stamp. However,
in the file names are often 'non-english' characters like letters with
accents and the spanish ñ. This causes my app to 'see' the filenames
wrong. For example, a file with the word 'español' in it is seen
first as 'espaol' and then later as espanol in my app.

Anyone know of a built-in way to deal with this characters? Is there a
way to strip accents and force VB to see an 'ñ' as an 'n' ? Or am I
going to have to do this the hard way and write a function than looks
for these characters?

Thanks

[Hugh Janus]

For example, a file with the word 'español' in it is seen first as
'espaol'.

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Hugh Janus" <my*************@hotmail.com> schrieb:

For example, a file with the word 'español' in it is seen first as
'espaol'.

Again: Where is the file seen? What are you doing with the file's name?

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

[Hugh Janus]

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] wrote:

"Hugh Janus" <my*************@hotmail.com> schrieb:

For example, a file with the word 'español' in it is seen first as
'espaol'.

Again: Where is the file seen? What are you doing with the file's name?

I use a directory walker to find all files. Then I do a simple
IO.File.Copy to copy the file elsewhere based on a criteria. I am not
doing anything with the files name.

[**Developer**]

For example, a file with the word 'español' in it is seen
first as 'espaol' and then later as espanol in my app.
You say the word is 'seen' twice. I think it would help to know what are the
two sets of VB code that see them?
"Hugh Janus" <my*************@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] wrote:

"Hugh Janus" <my*************@hotmail.com> schrieb:

For example, a file with the word 'español' in it is seen first as
'espaol'.

Again: Where is the file seen? What are you doing with the file's name?

I use a directory walker to find all files. Then I do a simple
IO.File.Copy to copy the file elsewhere based on a criteria. I am not
doing anything with the files name.