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Peter Silie
Peter Silie

Reputation: 875

German character ß uppercased in SS

I figured out, that "ß" is converted to "SS" when using uppercased(). But I want compare if two strings are equal without being case sensitive. So when comparing "gruß" with "GRUß" it should be the same as well as when comparing "gru" with "Gru". There is no uppercase "ß" in german language! Because I don't know which other characters aren't available in the corresponding languages, I could not filter all the caracters, which have no 1:1 uppercased opponent. What can I do?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 500

Answers (2)

Martin R
Martin R

Reputation: 539975

Use caseInsensitiveCompare() instead of converting the strings to upper or lowercase:

let s1 = "gruß"
let s2 = "GRUß"

let eq = s1.caseInsensitiveCompare(s2) == .orderedSame
print(eq) // true

This compares the strings in a case-insensitive way according to the Unicode standard.

There is also localizedCaseInsensitiveCompare() which does a comparison according to the current locale, and

s1.compare(s2, options: .caseInsensitive, locale: ...)

for a case-insensitive comparison according to an arbitrary given locale.

Upvotes: 3

hnh
hnh

Reputation: 14815

Well, "GRUß" is non-sensical in the first place for the reasons you state. You can't throw arbitrary data at a computer and expect it to process it in a sane way :-) If you have to deal with invalid input, you should probably have a preprocessing phase which cleans up crap you know about.

Having said that, this works (Swift 3.0):

let grusz = "GRUß"
let gruss = "GRUSS"
if grusz.compare(gruss, options: .caseInsensitive) == .orderedSame { 
   print("MATCHES") 
}

Upvotes: 1

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