Is there, uh, string.upper for symbols?

[Syntaxicle]

I’ve made a custom textbox. I’m trying to uh… capitalize(?) symbols. I can capitalize normal letters, (a, b, c) but not symbols. By capitalize, I mean pressing shift and the symbol. I’m using string.upper, but that doesn’t work for symbols. Is there any function that capitalizes symbols and letters? Thanks.

[Uhsleep91]

By symbols, do you mean letters like Å, Ç, etc.?

[Syntaxicle]

No, not those kind of symbols. I mean like ~!@#$%^&*()_+{}|:"<>?

Shift + 1
Shift + 2
Shift + 3

etc

[remcodesremcodes (Yix)]

The problem is, that not every keyboard has the same shift symbols.

[HugeCoolboy2007 (omega)]

Would it be possible for you to have an invisible TextBox and copy whatever is typed into it, onto your custom TextBox?

[Uhsleep91]

That sounds like something you’d need to implement yourself. AFAIK, string.upper works in the conceptual sense of capitalizing a letter. You can’t use it to conform to what your keyboard uses with shift. You’ll probably need to just make a table that maps all the symbols you want to “capitalize”

local Map = {
    ["1"] = "!",
    ["2"] = "@",
     -- rest of symbols
}

[MythicalRealm_Studio (Studio)]

use a table that does regular symbols with their shifted version like 1 etc

local symbolMap = {
    ['1'] = '!', ['2'] = '@', ['3'] = '#', ['4'] = '$', ['5'] = '%',
    ['6'] = '^', ['7'] = '&', ['8'] = '*', ['9'] = '(', ['0'] = ')',
    ['-'] = '_', ['='] = '+', ['['] = '{', [']'] = '}', ['\\'] = '|',
    [';'] = ':', ['\''] = '"', [','] = '<', ['.'] = '>', ['/'] = '?',
    ['`'] = '~'
}

local function capitalizeAll(text)
    local result = ""
    for i = 1, #text do
        local char = text:sub(i, i)
        if symbolMap[char] then
            result = result .. symbolMap[char]
        else
            result = result .. string.upper(char)
        end
    end
    return result
end
-- example 
local testString = "Hello123!@#"
local result = capitalizeAll(testString)
print("Original: " .. testString)
print("Capitalized: " .. result)