Authors CurseForge

In my addon I have tables which contains lists of peoples Mains and Alts. One person in particular has a Non ASCII char in his name and while his name is in the table when ever I try comparing a list of people in a raid group with these tables his doesn't compare properly. It shows him as non existent in both tables.

Is there anyway I can get around this?

Thanks in advance!

Edit: Here is an example of how I look through the Mains table:

for k, v in pairs(RaidGuildMembers) do
	for i = 1, #(HALootManager.PriorityList.Mains), 1 do
		if (HALootManager.PriorityList.Mains[i] == v) and (HALootManager:IsInGuild(v)) then							
			table.insert(MainsAndPrimaryAlts, v);
			break;
		end
	end
end

RaidGuildMembers (still need to rename from my previous implementation) is just a list of names from the raid. The IsInGuild function checks if the person is in the guild or not. The MainsAndPrimaryAlts table is what I use later in the code.

Quote from Graveeater

You mean, that one has a NON ascii char in its name? Like Gändálf?

Oh yes sry that is what I meant >.>. His name is Cptámerika for the record.

your biggest hurdle will be dealing with casing.


You wont be able to match "somealt" with "Somealt" without using some complicated patterns.

Here's my code to generate a pattern that will match if the first letter is lowercase or uppercase.

MULTIBYTE_FIRST_CHAR = "^([\192-\255]?%a?[\128-\191]*)"

function GetNamePattern(name)
    local u = name:match(MULTIBYTE_FIRST_CHAR):upper()
    
    if not u or u:len() == 0 then Prat.Print("GetNamePattern: name error", name) return end

    local l = u:lower()
    local namepat 
    if u == l then
        namepat = name:lower()
    elseif u:len() == 1 then
        namepat = "["..u..l.."]"..name:sub(2):lower()
    elseif u:len() > 1 then 
        namepat = ""
        for i=1,u:len() do
            namepat = namepat .. "[" .. u:sub(i,i)..l:sub(i,i).."]"
        end
        namepat = namepat .. name:sub(u:len()+1)
    end

    return "%f[%a\192-\255]"..namepat.."%f[^%a\128-\255]"
end

Quote from Phanx

Why would casing be an issue at all if you're comparing player names as they are displayed in-game from the client? As far as I'm aware, player names displayed by the client are always "Somealt", never "somealt" or "SOMEALT" or "sOMEALT" or "SoMeAlT" or anything else.

Assuming that things are always correctly cased is one of those things that you have to decide for yourself. Personally, case-sensitivity isnt something that is intuitive for users.

Quote from Phanx

Right, but my impression after reading the initial post is that this isn't something users are typing things into. He wants to compare the names of players in a raid group to names in a predefined table of mains and alts. UnitName("raidN") will always return a correctly cased name. I assume the mains-alts table is hand-written, but it's a lot simpler to hand-write the correct casing than to save yourself the effort of hitting the Shift key a few times only to have to write more code to deal with unknown casing.

Yeah - fair enough. I guess since I have already coded something pretty turn-key, there is no additional complexity in case insensitivity [for me]. Also - Alt names were part of what i wrote the code for - i guess im biased.