umlauts

[eraldo]

U need to change every "ä","ö" and "ü" to "ae", "oe" and "ue"
before it gets sent to the mud.

I tried to make an alias for each with pattern "ä" and substitute "ae".
However this replaces the entire input and "ae" is sent to the mud.

What would be the recommended way to change pieces of my input before it is sent to the mud?

Greetings from Austria,
Eraldo

[Heiko]

You make an alias that translates umlaute into the respective diagraphs i. e. ü->ue, ö->oe, ß ->ss etc.
name: umlaute filter
pattern: ü|ö|ä|Ü|Ö|Ä|ß
script:

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-- echo("<UMLAUTE herausgenommen> <"..command..">\n");
command = string.gsub(command, 'ü', 'ue' );
command = string.gsub(command, 'ö', 'oe' );
command = string.gsub(command, 'ä', 'ae' );
command = string.gsub(command, 'Ä', 'Ae' );
command = string.gsub(command, 'Ö', 'Oe' );
command = string.gsub(command, 'Ü', 'Ue' );
command = string.gsub(command, 'ß', 'ss' );

send( command );

As this is a very common problem for German MUDs I have attached a ready made package.