Hi Mark,
Hi Derek,
I'm having a little trouble importing a tab deliminted text file
(saved from excel), having rev organize it, then saving it out as an
xml file.
The import and text manipulation works just fine, but when it comes
time to export the data out to text files, all the foreign characters
(accents, umlauts, etc,) get converted to squares or questions marks.
Hmmm - sounds like your data is undergoing an inappropriate
conversion at some point (or *not* undergoing a conversion).
Revolution natively runs in character encoding that depends on
platform:
MacOS - MacRoman
Win32 - Windows Latin-1
Unix - ISO 8859-1
So, when you save out data, it will (by default) save it out using
that character set.
The only time you have to be concerned about the encoding is when
you are doing an explicit format conversion - which you are in this
case as you are saving out as XML.
My guess would be that, in your case, you are writing the data out
to XML and then another application is loading it and *assuming* it
is in UTF-8 thus resulting in the effect you see.
To fix this, you either need to convert your string data to UTF-8
before writing to the XML file:
put uniDecode(uniEncode(tASCIIText), "UTF8") into tUTF8Text
Or, change the encoding of the XML file by using:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
does that means that the Rev XML external does not care about the
encoding
resp. does not take the first line with an eventual encoding param
into account?
I found that XML files written by the external on a mac do have this
header:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
and this on windows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
So we are supposed to take care of the correct (crossplatform)
encoding by ourselves?
Hope this helps,
Mark.
Regards
Klaus Major
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.major-k.de
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