Text.ConvertUnicodeToCharacterDecomposition

Converts text by applying unicode character normalization.

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Example
Text	The text to process.	"Hello"

Result

Returns text or error.

Description

Examples

Test function with ä:

MBS("Text.Characters"; MBS( "Text.ConvertUnicodeToCharacterComposition"; Char(97) & Char(776) ))

Example result: 228

Test with ä as 228:

MBS("Text.Characters"; MBS( "Text.ConvertUnicodeToCharacterDecomposition"; Char(228) ))

Example result: 97 776

Test functions:

Let([
i = "tränenüberströmt";
r = MBS( "Text.ConvertUnicodeToCharacterDeComposition"; i);
t = MBS( "Text.Characters"; r);
x = MBS( "Text.ConvertUnicodeToCharacterComposition"; r);
tr= MBS( "Text.Characters"; x)

];
r & ¶ & t &¶& x & ¶ &
"before " & MBS("Text.Length"; i) & ", middle " & MBS("Text.Length"; r) & ", after " & MBS("Text.Length"; x) & ¶ & tr)

Example result:
tränenüberströmt
116 114 97 776 110 101 110 117 776 98 101 114 115 116 114 111 776 109 116
tränenüberströmt
before 16, middle 19, after 16
116 114 228 110 101 110 252 98 101 114 115 116 114 246 109 116

Mount with properly encoding french accent:

Set Variable [ $path; Value: MBS( "Files.Mount"; "afp://stockage.madabout.lu/" & MBS( "Text.EncodeURLComponent"; MBS( "Text.ConvertUnicodeToCharacterDecomposition"; "Travail archivé" )); "UTF-8" )) ]

# URL is "afp://test.myserver.local/Travail%20archiv%8E"

See also

• Files.Mount
• Text.Character
• Text.Characters
• Text.ConvertUnicodeToCharacterComposition
• Text.EncodeURLComponent
• Text.Length

Release notes

• Version 12.1
  • Rewrote Text.RemoveControlCharacters, Text.ConvertUnicodeToCharacterDecomposition and Text.ConvertUnicodeToCharacterComposition functions to preserve text styles.

Example Databases

• Text functions/Unicode Compositions

Blog Entries

• MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 12.1pr2

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Created 3th August 2015, last changed 4th March 2022

Text.ConvertUnicodeToCharacterComposition - Text.CountWords