I ran across the same problem with the ellipsis character. I ended up doing this:
if the platform is "MacOS" then put ISOToMac(numToChar(133)) into tEllipsis else put numToChar(133) into tEllipsis end if Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Paul Dupuis <p...@researchware.com> wrote: > On 10/31/2014 1:01 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: > > These are represented on the regular Mac keyboard as option-comma and > option-period, but these codes are not the same on the PC. Hence my need to > use html, since these characters are part of the standard html repertoire. > > See the isoToMac and macToIso functions in the dictionary. High ASCII > characters (byte 128-255) differ between platforms. The htmText property > of a field will not do a character conversion of these for you. > > Unfortunately, if your text contains high ASCII characters you need to > know what platform it was generated on to use or convert via the > functions above as needed. > > OR you need to encode any high ASCII characters in some platform > independent format, like HTML Unicode characters such as &#nnnn; > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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