I have seen the behavior Nishok describes. It was some time ago and I don't remember what the issue was, but I think it was fixable.
-- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Jan 15, 2013, at 1:54 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: > I am not sure why you are seeing this. I exported a pages newsletter file as > text, then ran this command on it: > > on mouseUp pMouseBtnNo > answer file "Pick a text file" with > "/Users/bobsneidar/Desktop/SneidarNewsletter.txt" > put it into theFile > open file theFile for read > read from file theFile until cr > put it > close file theFile > end mouseUp > > I got this in the message box: > > 2005 Summer Edition > > Seems to work. > > Bob > > > > On Jan 15, 2013, at 10:34 AM, NISHOK LOVE wrote: > >> Hi All >> >> I have a problem when I open .txt files in OSX, and I don't have much (any!) >> experience of reading files in LiveCode. >> >> I have a file originally written in Word on Windows. When I export it as a >> .txt from Word for Mac I just accept the default Mac OS encoding option >> (Western (Mac OS Roman) and it all works fine when I open the file in my >> LiveCode. >> >> But when I open the original file in Pages and export it as Plain Text, I >> get a different result. When I open that file in LiveCode I find a space has >> been inserted after every character. So Hello world becomes H e l l o w o >> r l d. >> >> I guess this is a problem with the encoding, but how can my LiveCode >> understand what the incoming file's encoding is and respond accordingly? My >> LiveCode needs to be able to deal with any kind of text file... >> >> Thanks, >> Nishok Love >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
