Hi Brahmanathaswami,
I installed LC server 7.0.4 in a Linux machine.
I have a similar problem with the chartonum function of special chars
(ie àèùì .. ).
As an example:
function chartonum("à") return 195 istead of 136
function chartonum("è") return 195 istead of 143
I do not know why.
Paolo MazzaOn Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Brahmanathaswami <bra...@hindu.org> wrote: > bottom line question: > > Is LC automatically transforming all the 128-255 ANSI chars to their unicode > equivalents? as per this chart: > > http://www.alanwood.net/demos/macroman.html > > ?? > > Back story: > > For years I have struggled with getting MacRoman ANSI characters like Curly > quote(s) and MDashes which are called on the Mac Keyboard with e.g. > shift-option-dash... In the old days this would produce.. if you ran a > charToNum function on it you would get 209 for mdash... > > Once again, circa 2015 I am faced with text that contains both unicode > compliant UTF-8 strings AND macRoman ANSI in the same paragraph... > > But...if I import that text into an LC field using "set the html text" to > that same chunk which include the ANSI character... I am seeing the mdash > properly displayed and the curly quotes and apostrophe's > > Now, and this is the interesting part: in LC7.1 RC3 if copy that from LC, > open a browser, go to PHPMyAdmin and paste into a column/field I am getting > what appears to me fully unicode compliant text! > > Since the screen is rendering the characters as expected.. I can't really > tell though.. I don't know how to analyze the string to see if it is 100% > unicode... but my "gut" is telling me that perhaps LC is auto transforming > the old 209 to the new unicode — for that character "on it's own," so > to speak. > > If so, this is "huge" for me... good news... but we are still having > problems with "POST" to get that same text into the database... > > I've tried the clipboardData["unicode"] > > But I think Jacque clued me in and the way to go is to do > > textEncode (the clipboardData["text"], "UTF-8") into tDataToPost > > and *then* post it to the API that will insert it into mySQL > > Also... if any one has any advice on how to handle the post on the LC server > side to preserve the UTF-8 string for insertion (RevIgniter Active database > library) that will also help. > > But the POST is a separate issue... I first want to understand what LC is > doing in these fields with the "old" ANSI chars on the Mac? > > Swasti Astu, Be Well! > Brahmanathaswami > > Kauai's Hindu Monastery > www.HimalayanAcademy.com > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
