Re: Pulling Unicode Data from a DataGrid

2013-03-19 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 5:04 PM, James Little littlejam...@mac.com wrote: We're translating our app SmoothieRx into Japanese and have been struggling to get UTF-16 text from a DataGrid. We've tried all sorts of combinations of uniEncode, uniDecode on the data and it all comes out garbled. We

Re: Pulling Unicode Data from a DataGrid

2013-03-19 Thread James Little
1) Are you populating the data grid with an array containing UTF-16 data? UTF 8, I overrode the default behavior and when I FillInData: I do this: set the unicodetext of the long ID of me to uniencode(pData, utf8) and this works great. But, when I tried converting to UTF-16, then it is

Re: Pulling Unicode Data from a DataGrid

2013-03-19 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 1:21 PM, James Little littlejam...@mac.com wrote: 1) Are you populating the data grid with an array containing UTF-16 data? UTF 8, I overrode the default behavior and when I FillInData: I do this: set the unicodetext of the long ID of me to uniencode(pData,

Re: Pulling Unicode Data from a DataGrid

2013-03-19 Thread James Little
Thanks so much Trevor and Nicolas! Unicode text has been my bane of existence for the last few days/weeks. I can now move forward. Trevor: Your suggestion worked! I'm very happy. put uniencode(tVar, utf8) into theUTF16Text was the key. Nicolas: I will be bookmarking this code for later use.

Re: Pulling Unicode Data from a DataGrid

2013-03-19 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:08 PM, James Little littlejam...@mac.com wrote: Trevor: Your suggestion worked! I'm very happy. put uniencode(tVar, utf8) into theUTF16Text was the key. Good. Unicode is so much fun :-) One other thing to be aware of - when using uniencode and unidecode the byte

Pulling Unicode Data from a DataGrid

2013-03-18 Thread James Little
Hey all, We're translating our app SmoothieRx into Japanese and have been struggling to get UTF-16 text from a DataGrid. We've tried all sorts of combinations of uniEncode, uniDecode on the data and it all comes out garbled. We first overrode the DataGrid, so we can see that the Japanese in

Re: Pulling Unicode Data from a DataGrid

2013-03-18 Thread Nicolas Cueto
For handling Japanese text, these functions (below) by Kenji Kojima have served perfectly for years. (Many thanks again, Kenji!) -- Nicolas Cueto on mouseUp answer file Open unicode file: if it is empty then exit mouseUp put url (binfile: it) into tURL set the useUnicode to true