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i trying to write script that correct ALT+SHIFT mistake (when u forget to press ALT+SHIFT and write sentence in English chars instead of Hebrew)

the script take the clipboard (i don't know how to take the highlight text - if some one know please say)

and for each char: replace the char with the correct char

the problem:

some chars in Hebrew have the same ASCII value:

asc("צ")=asc("ץ")

so the script can't detect the right char

of course that they don't have the same Unicode value

how can i fix the problem? (how autoit can recognize chars with the same ASCII but different Unicode)

thank you

arye

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I think you misunderstand what you are seeing. The text is either ASCII or Unicode, not a mix of both. UTF-8 was designed for backwards compatibility with ASCII, but that only applies to code points 0 thru 0x7F. It doesn't mean anything to pass a Unicode character to the Asc() function. It is not meant to "translate" like that.

To represent Hebrew Tsadi (צ) actually requires two UTF-8 bytes: 0x05E6

If you want to see the code in AutoIt, it would look like this. Note the use of AscW():

$iAscii = Asc("צ")
$iUTF8 = AscW("צ")
ConsoleWrite("Tsadi:  $iAscii = 0x" & Hex($iAscii) & "(invalid)  --  $iUTF8 = 0x" & Hex($iUTF8) & @LF)

$iAscii = Asc("Y")
$iUTF8 = AscW("Y")
ConsoleWrite("Y:  $iAscii = 0x" & Hex($iAscii) & "  --  $iUTF8 = 0x" & Hex($iUTF8) & @LF)

:)

Edited by PsaltyDS
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i will try again

here is the script:

$flag = True
$j = 0
$temp = ""
$clip = ClipGet()
$len = StringLen($clip)
$str = ""
$_str = "/'קראטוןםפ][שדגכעיחלךף,זסבהנמצתץ.qwertyuiop[]asdfghjkl;'zxcvbnm,./"
for $i = 1 to $len step +1
    $flag = True
    $j = 0
    $temp = StringMid($clip,$i,1)
    While $j < $66 And $flag
        $j = $j +1
        If $temp = StringMid($_str,$j,1) Then
            $temp = StringMid($_str,Mod($j+33,66),1)
            $flag = False
        EndIf
    WEnd
    $str = $str & $temp 
Next
MsgBox(0,"",$str)

_str is string that i create such _str[x] is the hebrew char and _str[x] is the english char in the same key of _str[x]

the problem that if temp = "צ"

($temp ="צ")=true

but ($temp ="ץ")=true too

i don't know why

here you can see that Tsadi have two appearance final and non-final

the ASCII of them is equal

but the Unicode is different

code:

$iAscii = Asc("צ")
$iUTF8 = AscW("צ")
ConsoleWrite("Tsadi:  $iAscii = 0x" & Hex($iAscii) & "(invalid)  --  $iUTF8 = 0x" & Hex($iUTF8) & @LF)

$iAscii = Asc("ץ")
$iUTF8 = AscW("ץ")
ConsoleWrite("final Tsadi:  $iAscii = 0x" & Hex($iAscii) & "  --  $iUTF8 = 0x" & Hex($iUTF8) & @LF)

output:

>"C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\..\autoit3.exe" /ErrorStdOut "D:\desktop\temp.au3"

Tsadi: $iAscii = 0x0000003F(invalid) -- $iUTF8 = 0x000005E6

final Tsadi: $iAscii = 0x0000003F -- $iUTF8 = 0x000005E5

>Exit code: 0 Time: 0.219

i hope that i explain the problem clear enough

thank you

arye

Edited by hellfire03
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