Dreamweaver.setUpFindReplace() and the Greek Alphabet

Question

I've set up a script to clean up special characters with the following:
var counter = 0;
while (counter < autofind.length) {
//get a value to find
var autofindstring = autofind[counter].toString()
//get a value to replace
var autorepstring = autorep[counter].toString()
dreamweaver.setUpFindReplace({searchString: autofindstring, replaceString: autorepstring, searchSource: true, ignoreWhitespace: true, matchCase: true});
dreamweaver.replaceAll();
counter++
This is calling from 2 arrays - autofind and autorep. Autofind contains raw special characters, and autorep their &#** replacements.
The trouble I'm having is getting Dreamweaver to understand the difference between uppercase and lowercase Greek letters. For example:
autofind[112] = "α"
autofind[146] = "Α"
autorep[112] = "\&#945;"
autorep[146] = "\&#913;"
replaces Α α with &#945; &#945; (α α).
So it appears that Dreamweaver does not understand that the Greek Alphabet has upper and lower case - or recognize that Α and α are different characters. Any ideas on how to get this script to work? It's handling all other special characters well - the only problem is with the Greek alphabet.

Answer 1

Hi John,
AppleWorks is an old application, and can use only Mac Roman encoded fonts. Most of the fonts supplied with current Macs are Unicode encoded, and cannot be used in AppleWorks. Character Palette will show all the characters, and will report the Unicode character number for Unicode encoded characters.
There are a few Greek letters available in some standard font sets, and you can see these and the key combination necessary to achieve them in Keyboard Viewer.
Beyond thise, your choices are to find a downloadable Greek font with Mac Roman encoding, or to move your scientific work to a newer application.
Regards,
Barry