Yes, that function is exactly, what I was looking for. Fraser told to provide such a function, but I didn't see it yet. Tiemo
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Paul Dupuis Gesendet: Montag, 23. Mai 2016 13:40 An: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Betreff: Re: AW: AW: Don't understand unicode handling 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 _______________________________________________ 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
