Accent()

Description

FUNCTION: accent(<string>,<template>)

The accent() function will return <string>, with characters in it possibly changed to accented ones according to <template>. Both arguments must be the same number of characters.

Whether or not the resulting string is actually displayed correctly is client-dependent.

For each character in <string>, the corresponding character of <template> is checked according to the table below, and a replacement done. If either the current <string> or <template> characters aren’t in the table, the <string> character is passed through unchanged.

 Accent                            Template   String  Name          Description         Character  Character  -----------------------------------------------------------------  double acute  Two foward slants   "          O,U,o,u  acute         Forward slant       '          A,C,E,I,L,N,O,R,S,T,U,Y,Z,a,c,                above letter                   e,i,l,n,o,r,s,u,y,z  cedilla       Small tail below    ,          A,C,E,G,I,K,L,N,R,S,T,U,a,c,e,                letter                         g,i,k,l,n,r,s,t,u  macron        dash above letter   -          A,D,E,I,O,U,a,e,i,o,u  dot           dot above letter    .          C,E,G,I,Z,c,e,g,i,z  stroke        diagonal or         /          D,H,L,O,d,h,l,o                horizonal through                letter  umlaut        Two dots above      :          A,E,I,O,U,Ya,e,i,o,u,y  diaeresis     letter  circumflex    carat above         ^          A,C,E,G,H,I,J,O,S,U,W,Y,a,c,e,                letter                         g,h,i,j,o,s,u,w,y  grave         Backward slant      `          A,E,I,O,U,a,e,i,o,u                above letter  ring          Small circle above  o          A,U,a,u                letter  breve         rounded half-circle u          A,E,G,I,O,U,a,e,g,i,o,u                above letter  caron         inverted circumflex v          C,D,E,L,N,R,S,T,Z,c,e,l,n,r,t,z  tilde         Wavy line above     ~          A,I,N,O,U,a,i,n,o,u                letter

These are non-accent special characters, mostly punctuation and non-roman letters.

                     Template   String  Description         Character  Character  --------------------------------------------------------------  Upside-down ?       u          ?  Upside-down !       u          !  << quote mark       "          <  >> quote mark       "          >  German sharp s      B          s  Capital thorn       |          P  Lower-case thorn    |          p  Capital eth         -          D  Lower-case eth      &          o  Eng or engma        G          N  Eng or engma        g          n  Kra                 q          K

These are ligatures.

                     Template   String  Description         Character  Character  --------------------------------------------------------------  Ligature AE         E          A  Ligature IJ         J          I  Ligature OE         E          O  Ligature ae         e          a  Ligature ij         j          i  Ligature oe         e          o

Example

  > think accent(Aule, ---:)    Āūlë

   > think accent(The Nina was a ship, The Ni~a was a ship)    The Niña was a ship

   > think accent(Khazad ai-menu!, Khaz^d ai-m^nu!)    Khazâd ai-mênŭ!

Related Topics

Softcode functions, chr(), ord(), stripaccents()