String.toUpperCase() does not uppercase accents

Posted on Mon 22nd, June 2020

• #1

Mrbbp

If i upperCase string with accents, it does not work on accents!

let txt= "béèàîâ";
txt = txt.toUpperCase();
console.log(txt); // Béèàîâ
let txtUp = "bÉÈÀÎÂ";
txtUp = txtUp.toUpperCase();
console.log(txtUp); // BÉÈÀÎÂ
for( let c of txt) {
  console.log(c, c.charCodeAt(0));
}
for( let c of txtUp) {
  console.log(c, c.charCodeAt(0));
}

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• #2

Gordon

For others, this is now reported in the Espruino bug tracker: https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/issues/1866

Espruino was originally only designed with ASCII in mind, so this doesn't work with char codes >127

It shouldn't be too hard to fix, and for now you could actually overwrite String.prototype.toUpperCase with a JS version if you need it in a hurry

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