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[jbijker]

OE has build-in support for special characters mapped to normal equivalents. Try this: MESSAGE "eleve" = "élève" VIEW-AS ALERT-BOX. It comes back with --------------------------- Message (Press HELP to view stack trace) --------------------------- yes --------------------------- OK Help --------------------------- It also applies to queries from DB, e.g. DEFINE TEMP-TABLE ttTest FIELD cField AS CHARACTER. CREATE ttTest. ASSIGN ttTest.cField = "eleve". CREATE ttTest. ASSIGN ttTest.cField = "élève". FOR EACH ttTest WHERE ttTest.cField = "eleve": DISPLAY ttTest. END. This will return both records for you. I don't know if it internally converts it to basic text and if you can call that API. But my question is: do you still need to do this if OE already does it for you?

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