Mark, Perfect. That's it!
Coincidentally I also found it in the notes section for Open File by rod...@oceanbrowser.com: > If you are reading in a text file (for example) which contains high ascii > values (such as curly quotes - numToChar(210) ) you will find that these are > displayed as garbage in the variable watcher, or if you set directly to the > field contents. > > The solution is to encode and decode the content: > > #tData contains your data read in from file > put uniDecode(uniEncode(tData, "UTF8")) into tData > > (All credit to Dave Cragg and Devin Assay for this tip) Thank you, Bill Vlahos _________________ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life information with you, accessible, and secure. On Jan 22, 2012, at 7:00 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Bill, > > on mouseUp > answer file "Import Password Text File" with type "Text|txt" > if it is not empty then > put "binfile:" & it into vPathToFile > put URL vPathToFile into fSource > put unidecode(uniencode(fSource,"UTF8")) into fSource > examineImport fSource > else > exit mouseUp > end if > end mouseUp > > on examineImport vPasswords > put vPasswords into field "fPasswords" > end examineImport > > -- > 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 http://qery.us/za > > On 23 jan 2012, at 00:31, Bill Vlahos wrote: > >> Thanks to the beta testers they discovered a problem that I don't know how >> to fix…unicode. >> >> If the text file contains german umlaute ü,ö,ä. And these characters are not >> imported correctly. The ü (u umlaut) for example becomes √º >> >> Here is the code: >> on mouseUp >> answer file "Import Password Text File" with type "Text|txt" >> if it is not empty then >> put "file:" & it into vPathToFile >> put URL vPathToFile into fSource >> examineImport fSource >> else >> exit mouseUp >> end if >> end mouseUp >> >> on examineImport vPasswords >> put vPasswords into field "fPasswords" >> end examineImport >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> Bill Vlahos > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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