There is nothing built-in, and, to the best of my knowledge, there is no
fixed relationship between a non-accented character and the various accented
forms of that character. For example ...
? asc("á")-asc("a")
128
? asc("é")-asc("e")
132
What this means is that, as far as I can tell, you would have to write code
to handle each possible accented character individually ...
strWhatever = Replace(strWhatever, "á", "a")
strWhatever = Replace(strWhatever, "é", "e")
etc., etc., etc.
Or walk the string, examining each character in turn, and do something like
....
If Asc(strChar) Between Asc("è") And Asc("ë") Then
strWhatever = strWhatever & "e"
Else If Asc(strChar) Between Asc(""à") And Asc("å") Then
strWhatever = strWhatever & "a"
'etc., etc., etc.
Else
strWhatever = strWhatever & strChar
End If
I can't say for sure, but possibly you may be able to do something with
regular expressions. I have only used regular expressions in .NET, but I
believe it should be possible to use them in VBA by adding a reference to
the Microsoft VBScript Regular Expressions <version number> object library.
There's a very good tutorial and reference on regular expressions at the
following URL ...
http://www.regular-expressions.info/
If you are in a position to do so, the best solution would be to explain to
the vendors of the other application that this is the year 2004, and that
they really need to catch up - they can't go on living in the 1980s for
ever!
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