Sorry to drag us off the interesting topic of licensing :-) into some
Livecode question.
I know little or nothing about Unicode, text encodings, etc. - so my
question is indeed naive.
I have a text file (War & Peace from Project Gutenberg), about 3.4Mb.
The Mac describes it simply as "Plain text".
When I read that into a variable, and then do
replace tChar by SPACE in tWholeText
it takes between 1000 and 4000 millisecs - versus the 8-10 msecs I had
expected from other samples.
If I put in
put textEncode(tWHoleText, "UTF8") into tWholeText
before the replace then it does indeed tae 8-10 msecs.
Q1. What (if anything) am I losing by doing that ?
Q2. Is this the best alternative ?
Additional info - I just discovered that according to 'more' command
line, the file start with :
<U+FEFF>The Project ....
if that is useful.
Many thanks,
Alex.
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