Hi Joe
I appreciate you time to help clrify things for me. Turns out I
understand this pretty well, so I will continue to try to work things
out.
I left text encoding alone in this project. My understanding is that
everything is UTF8 now, so I figured there would be no problems for
international users (I'm in Oregon, US).
Well, it's certainly not true that "everything" is UTF-8, particularly
if your application has to send data to or accept data from any other
applications (e.g., via files).
The only data the app might have to accept could be from the
paseboard. Are strings copied to the pasteboard converted to UTF8?
I receive feedback from a user in Finland, the app is choking on
Finnish. I went back to my code and tried forcing text encoding for
reads and writes to SystemDefault. Feedback from the user indicated
no improvement.
Yowch, I should think not. UTF-8 is the correct thing to use. The
question is, at what point is your app not getting UTF-8, or getting
UTF-8 but thinking it's something else?
Because the app writes html docs, I'm beginning to think it is the
resultant HTML files that are at issue, the user in Finland writes
that they open in TextEdit rather than Safari. Not a good
beginning. I advised them to look at Get Info on any .html file and
click the Change all. button if they need to. But if my app is
writing .html text as UTF8, I'm thinking it would open in Safari just
fine.
Also, you might want to search the archives for "Text Encoding FAQ" --
a little dated now, but still useful.
Sven helped me locate it easily. I made a .pdf of it for reference.
I've asked the user in Finland to send email me output from my app
from their machine, hoping to see what's going on.
Thanks for your help. I'll keep looking to see what's causing a
problem for them in Finland. If I find it, I'll let everyone know
what it was and how it got fixed.
Yours truly
R Charles Flickinger
Corona Developer: http://www.designersdomain.com/corona
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