I spoke to Fraser when LC7 came out about a lack of a guessTextEncoding function.
See http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14474 On 5/23/2016 3:08 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > Hi Jacque, > thanks for the function update. > But if you don't know, what kind of encoding the source file is, it's still > trial and error, or is there any kind of "quickcheck" for the current source > encoding? > Tiemo > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag > von J. Landman Gay > Gesendet: Freitag, 20. Mai 2016 20:05 > An: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Betreff: Re: AW: Don't understand unicode handling > > On 5/20/2016 12:53 PM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: >> Bonsoir Thierry, >> >> thank you for the helpful link, with your help, I found the right >> conversion, though I don't understand what is going on :) For my issue >> the solution was not to use uniEncode() when importing the file into >> LC, but just putting the file into a field. >> But using uniDecode() when exporting it from LC. >> >> I think my problem is that you don't see what type of coding a file >> has. If you have to handle with unknown data, you just have to try the >> different combinations of encode/decode/do nothing with the data, >> because a file has no label "I am UTF-8". > In LC 7 and above, the old unicode syntax is deprecated and the new encoding > syntax is easier to use. Whenever you import or export text you need to > translate it using the new textEncode and textDecode functions. > > To bring unicode text into LC: > > get textDecode(<filepath>,"UTF8") > > and to export it: > > put textEncode(tText,"UTF8") into file <filepath> > > If you are not sure what the unicode encoding is, it is almost always safe > to assume UTF-8. The dictionary has examples. > _______________________________________________ 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
