On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 02:45 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
I may be mis-remembering, but I thought character conversions were now done on custom properties as well as on fields. Or was I dreaming > that?
From the dictionary entry for ISOToMac():
Revolution automatically translates text in fields and scripts, as well as the names of custom properties, into the appropriate character set when you move a stack from one platform to another. It is therefore not necessary to translate them. However, the contents of custom properties, since they may contain binary data, are not translated automatically and must be translated if they contain characters whose ASCII value is 128 or greater.
From "Why... is a custom property garbled when switching platforms":
However, text in custom properties is not converted between the ISO and Macintosh character sets. This is because custom properties can contain binary data as well as text, and converting them would garble the data. If you plan to display the data in a custom property as text, you must convert it yourself when you use the stack on another platform.
So, my panic was premature.
Maybe the compressed htmlText could go into a custom property.
I don't think storing binary in fields is safe, be it crossplatform or not.
Dar Scott panic prone
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