On 12/3/05 4:47 PM, "Mathewson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I popped some string which contained quotes: > e.g. "Hello" said the frog. > then ported them over to Windows and found the quotes were > replaced by cute little boxes; everything else text-wise > came through intact. > And; NO I DID NOT USE SMART QUOTES. > Any bright ideas why this happens?
Quick answer = high ASCII character that looks like a quote mark for a particular font, like Arial, Verdana, Desdemona, Comic Sans, etc,etc,etc. When this happens for me in a variety of programs cross-platform, I use BBEdit to paste in the text and then get the ASCII value of it. So far I have always found that it was some high ASCII that a particular font would use to represent something that looked like a quote mark, either single or double. [also beware that clipboard operations between programs and systems strive to make adjustments they deem correct by using coersion and stripping of formatting/styles] Additionally, the destination system may not have the original font available and do a font substitution, eg. Geneva-> Arial. In the message box in Rev you could do the following: switch to multiline message box then paste the following lines (note: comments will not work in the message box) repeat with x = 1 to the number of chars in fld textHolder put chartonum(char x of fld textHolder) into line x of theeAnswer end repeat sort theeAnswer descending numeric put theeAnswer into msg The result is the ASCII number for each, on separate line Above 127 is considered high ASCII and each font designer can use it as they wish. Hope this helps. Jim Ault Las Vegas On 12/3/05 4:47 PM, "Mathewson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I popped some string which contained quotes: > > e.g. "Hello" said the frog. > > into some fields in a stack made in Mac OS X > > then ported them over to Windows and found the quotes were > replaced by cute little boxes; everything else text-wise > came through intact. > > Admittedly my "Hello" phrases were in Bulgarian - but " is > neither language or encoding specific as far as I am aware > > (I write .DOCs using OpenOffice on my Mac and send them to > all sorts of users on all sorts of platforms and everything > gets through.) > > had to change all the cute boxes back into speech marks > when in Windows - even oddlier - they remained speech marks > back in Mac. > > > And; NO I DID NOT USE SMART QUOTES. > > Any bright ideas why this happens? > > sincerely, Richmond > __________________________________________________ > See Mathewson's software at: > > http://members.maclaunch.com/richmond/default.html > _______________________________________ > --------------------------------------------------------------- > The Think Different Store > http://www.thinkdifferentstore.com/ > For All Your Mac Gear > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
