Name

diacriticals

Syntax

Ignoring diacriticals
   (* do some scripting here *)
end ignoring

Description

These accent characters are ignored in string comparisons that use an ignoring diacriticals...end ignoring statement block. By default, AppleScript considers diacriticals when comparing strings.

Examples

This AppleScript shows that by default the strings that have diacritical marks do not return true when compared with the same string without the marks. The result is reversed when the diacritical constant is ignored (hasDiacritical returns false and hasDiacritical2 returns true):

set hasDiacritical to ("spät is late in German" is equal to "spat is late 
in German") -- returns false
ignoring diacriticals
   set hasDiacritical2 to ("spät is late in German" is equal to "spat is 
   late in German") -- returns true
end ignoring
log hasDiacritical -- is false
log hasDiacritical2 -- is true because the diacritical in "ä" is ignored