On Jan 29, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: > More issues - the minus signs don't seem to be Mac Roman after all (at least > MacToISO no longer seems to translate the although I could have sworn it did > earlier, nor ASCII, nor anything else I've found so far. LC's charToNum > function thinks their value is 208 (decimal). Still looking…
It's an en dash, probably, rather than a hyphen. That's at code point 208 in Mac Roman. Devin > > On 29 Jan 2014, at 22:40, I wrote: > >> I'm using LC 6.5.1 on a Mac with Mavericks. Recently I was given a Pages >> document with some text I needed to paste into a LiveCode desktop app. The >> relevant text was: >> >> 3*(-1*x^2 + 4)(-1*x^4 - 5x + 2) >> >> (Don't worry, it's just a meaningless example). >> >> I changed this to plain text (it had originally been coloured and I thought >> this might affect the result). I then used an LC script to search for some >> characters, particularly the minus signs. Couldn't find them. Then I >> realised that I had to put the text string through LC's MactoISO function - >> so Pages, far from using UniCode (I thought everybody was doing it) is still >> using the old Mac character set. LC, even on a Mac, apparently isn't. The >> thing is, the pasted text **looks** OK in an LC field, but it's not. >> >> Just a gotcha that surprised me and may bite someone else. >> >> I'm wondering if LC 7 will take this kind of problem away. I'm also >> wondering what Apple are up to still using a proprietary character code. And >> I'm wondering if I should have tried to do the whole thing with Unicode text. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Devin Asay Office of Digital Humanities Brigham Young University _______________________________________________ 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
