Keep in mind that HTML encoded text may not work for some higher-ASCII characters. That's exactly the reason why we have Unicode.
-- Kind regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Http://economy-x-talk.com Share the clipboard of your computer over a local network with Clipboard Link http://clipboardlink.economy-x-talk.com Op 30 jun. 2014 om 19:31 heeft Ben Rubinstein <benr...@cogapp.com> het volgende geschreven: > On 30/06/2014 16:18, J. Landman Gay wrote: >> This is exactly what I've been dealing with for a week. You need two steps >> : first check the platform and if it's Windows then run macToISO on the >> string. After that your existing conversion to UTF8 should work. > > Aha, good tip, thank you. > > On reflection though I think I'm going to adopt a modified version of Peter's > suggestion; use HTML entities in the 'constant' string to be unambiguous but > readable, passing it through a function called "HTMLtoUTF8" so that bit of > the script looks clean - and then do a nasty dirty implementation of that > function, that just handles the two entities I currently care about and > throws an error if invoked on anything else. > > I'm all about the elegance, me. > > thanks to all who responded, > > Ben > > _______________________________________________ > 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
