[V4MD] special language character search

[Martin Kloss]

Hi Ruslan,

how does Valentina search (regex and normal) for high ascii chars
in string / text fields?

I have a db with lots of characters with diacritics (German Umlaute,
Czech characters, Spanish, Danish etc. etc.). The user can input
these characters into the db by clicking on a tool which displays
all of these characters as a map. We created a true type font which
includes all of our needed characters, but most of them are not
existing in any other font, i.e. system fonts like Arial.

When the record is retrieved from the db, the text is displayed in
the same font to make sure that all characters get displayed correctly.
Everything works fine so far.

Now the user has a search interface to search for records and
the above mentioned input tool to insert the special characters,
i.e. for spelling a Polish or German name into the search field.

What I would like to know is how Valentina searches internally
for these characters. Do they get mapped to ASCII codes?

Martin.


Martin Kloss

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