>Op 19-mrt-05 om 16:25 heeft jbv het volgende geschreven: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm working on a website project using Rev cgi in which >> data will be sold online and available as xml files to be >> downloaded by customers. >> It seems that xml files suffer the same problem as plain >> text files : according to the client platform to which they'll >> be downloaded, end users need to have the choice between >> a Mac or ISO version... Or is there a way to make xml files >> all-platforms compatible ? > >You are talking about upper ASCII chars, because with 'normal' chars >you wouldn't notice the difference between Mac or ISO. > >Many of these upper ASCII chars can be typed as ë or { (the >latter form is preferred). XML in RunRev does that automatically, or it >chokes on these upper ASCII chars. > >Upper ASCII chars in XML in RunRev is not completely bug-free. It >handles '�' nicely, but can't handle '�' for example. > >Terry
Though it's not directly relevant to the practical issue of this thread, I happened to be using the transcript function mactoiso() yesterday and discovered that, (contrary to what it says in my version of the docs), it is not only character codes >127 that are affected by that function. in mactoiso the remapping affects many control characters in the range 1-21. I used the following handler to investigate. on mouseup repeat with i = 1 to 31 put i into item i of startcodes end repeat repeat for each item i in startcodes put numtochar(i) & comma after startchars end repeat delete last char of startchars put mactoiso(startchars) into endchars repeat with i = 1 to 31 put item i of startcodes & " = "\ & chartonum(item i of endchars) into line i of output end repeat put output end mouseup Of these, the codes that come through unscathed are 8,9,10,13 and 22-31 all the others end up as "high ascii" codes. What alerted me to this was using mactoiso on a string containing VT as a stand-in line-delimiter. This got changed to char 188 - the 1/4 fraction in iso. This surprised me. I think the reason must be because these character positions have historically been used by specialist mac fonts for various mathematical and icelandic characters. I now know to substitute any VT characters *before* passing the string through mactoiso. No doubt the same caution applies to isotomac(). Esoteric? Yes, but definitely worth knowing if you are in the habit of using VT this way. Martin Baxter _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
