Hi Wilhelm, > On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 eric engle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > >> In MetaCard 2.2 when I tried to port a stack written >> in French from MacOS to Windows all my accents were >> changed. >> >> Since English has no accents this is not a problem - >> in English. >> >> However every other major language that I know of has >> accents. (French, Russian, Spanish, Italian... the >> list is not insignificant). >> I am wondering if there has emerged any workaround for >> this problem? >> > I have run into a related problem: > The special German characters for a, o, and u with dots on top of them > - > the so-called "Umlaute" - are preserved in texts and as names of > objects > when the stacks are transferred from the Mac platform to Windows (of > course we have learned that you should not behave in an un-American way > when defining variables, which is a different matter). > However, special characters as part of *custom properties* are > substituted by other characters when the stacks are tranferred from Mac > to Windows, which led to errors in a language program where we had > stored the meaning of images and its translation as custom variables. > It > took us some time to find out that the problem was with the custom > properties. > So I also ask, is there a workaround for this problem? > > Regards, > Wilhelm Sanke
as Jaqueline pointed out, that will have to be scripted. I asked Scott Raney about this problem some time ago and his answer was quite clear and logical :-) Custom properties can hold binary values ! and it would be not desirable to have these automatically converted by MC (isotomac/mactoiso) ;-) Therefore only text in fields and buttons etc. are handled automatically when transferring stacks to another platform. Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
