Re: Livecode handling of directories with non-ascii (?) characters.

2012-02-06 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hmmm... I wonder if you can pass urlencoded data to the files functions? Bob On Jan 24, 2012, at 11:04 AM, Mark Powell wrote: Alex, I have had this problem since the Rev 2.0 days and as far as I can tell it is not fixed. In LC, I can literally get the files and immediately ask is there a

Livecode handling of directories with non-ascii (?) characters.

2012-01-24 Thread Alex Tweedly
I'm not sure if this is a LC question, or an OSX question, or a unicode question, or ... or what. I have a folder with funny characters (:-) in its name, and that seems to cause a problem in LC. When I do 'ls' in terminal, I get Björg Þórhallsdóttir I cannot copy/paste this into a LC

RE: Livecode handling of directories with non-ascii (?) characters.

2012-01-24 Thread Mark Powell
Alex, I have had this problem since the Rev 2.0 days and as far as I can tell it is not fixed. In LC, I can literally get the files and immediately ask is there a file (line whatever of it) and I get a doesn't exist if line whatever of its contains a violater character in the file name. This

Re: Livecode handling of directories with non-ascii (?) characters.

2012-01-24 Thread Mark Schonewille
Alex, No, LiveCode is hopelessly obsolete when it comes to unicode and interaction with other programmes or the operating system. You could try to create your own file management system for LiveCode using the shell, AppleScript and VBScript. LiveCode is the only current cross-platform tool I

Re: Livecode handling of directories with non-ascii (?) characters.

2012-01-24 Thread Mark Schonewille
Mark, It is a LC question. Definitely an LC question. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.7 for LiveCode here