On Sep 18, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Viktoras Didziulis wrote:
Is it possible to set charset of text displayed in table field to utf-8 or any other charset ? Where, how ?... I tried to: set the unicodeText of field "fTable" to "file:unicode.txt". The first result was nonsence - all rows condensed into a single row of mess (with utf-8). The second time, the file was true Unicode (utf-16), it crashed the Revolution IDE (2.7.1, MS Windows) Apparently I have bad luck today, time to sleep and wait until tomorow :-)
I don't know anything about table fields, but I have stuffed some unicode into ordinary fields, and maybe my experience will help.
You can get UTF-8 text with URL file:. Use uniEncode() to convert that to host-order UTF-16. Then stuff it into the field with 'set unicodeText'.
There are two byte-order schemes of UTF-16. The Byte-Order-Mark (BOM) at the front indicates the order. If the BOM is missing then the default is big-endian.
However, as usual, Microsoft ignores standards where convenient and acts shocked that others do not do things the correct Microsoft way. On Microsoft most UTF-16 files will be little endian even without a BOM. (You can often save a file in MS utilities as UTF-16BE, but Mac line ends are automatically used.)
So to put a file like that (UTF-16) into a field, input with URL binfile:. Note the binfile: this time. You might need to convert the line ends to the Revolution line ends. The easiest way is to convert to UTF-8 and then replace characters as you would with ordinary text and then convert back. Then put it into the field with 'set unicodeText'.
In either case, if you get something funny at the start of the field, there might be a BOM character at the front. If you get this, then ask on this list concerning how to recognize and get rid of it.
I suppose one way to approach tables is to see how this works in everyday fields and then once you get that to work, try it on a table field and see if it explodes or melts. (Hmmm. If you try this on any of Scott Rossi's or Ken Ray's fields, they might actually explode or melt.)
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