Yes. A0 looks like the middle of a sequence of UTF-8 bytes for one character. Hitting that will cause an error.
I wonder why the db complained about CA and 59. > On Sep 13, 2019, at 4:10 PM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hi Bob and Dar, > > Thanks for getting back to me on this. > > After going through the LC list archives, > I came across a helpful tool called > "Unicode Checker” that was originally > suggested by Richmond Mathewson. > (Thanks for that by the way.) > > There is a nice little utility inside of it that > allowed me to compare the string from > Pages that I pasted to the the string that > I had cleaned with BBEdit. The only > differences found was a 000A <control> > and a few 00A0 (NO-BREAK SPACEs). > > I suspect it is the control character really > screwing things up. (I don’t know how > it got into the string.) > > I am not using the accept-charset attribute > in the <form> statement. If not specified > it is supposed to use the default which I’m > guessing is UTF-8. I supposed I could try > a test with the attribute specified to see if > it makes any difference. > > Thanks, > > Rick > > >> On Sep 13, 2019, at 5:36 PM, Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> When you Zap Gremlins, are you removing non-ASCII or converting to ASCII? >> Maybe you can do the same thing before saving to the db. >> >> Codes 0xca 0x59 do form an invalid UTF-8 sequence. They are good letters in >> both Latin-1 and CP1252, so I'm not getting a hint. >> >> Wild, wild guess... Are you using an accept-charset attribute in <form>? >> Maybe fiddling with that will help. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode