Re: Spurious characters from html files - text encoding issues?

2021-05-17 Thread Keith Clarke via use-livecode
Thanks Ben, that’s really interesting. It never occurred to me that these html files might be anything other than simple plain text files, as I’d work with in Coda, etc., for years. The local HTML files are storage of the HTML text pulled from the LiveCode browser widget, saved using the URL ‘

[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 265

2021-05-17 Thread panagiotis merakos via use-livecode
Hi all, Read about new developments in LiveCode open source and the open source community in today's edition of the "This Week in LiveCode" newsletter! Read issue #265 here: https://bit.ly/3u2Upex This is a weekly newsletter about LiveCode, focussing on what's been going on in and around

Re: LC puts stuff in the trash upon quit!

2021-05-17 Thread Rick Harrison via use-livecode
Thanks for getting back to me on this. This bug has been around for over 3 years now. Will it ever get squashed? Rick > On May 15, 2021, at 12:06 PM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode > wrote: > > There is a bug report for this already > > https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21233 > >

Re: Spurious characters from html files - text encoding issues?

2021-05-17 Thread Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode
Hi Keith, The thing with character encoding is that you always need to know where it's coming from and where it's going. Do you know how the HTML documents were obtained? Saved from a browser, fetched by curl, fetched by Livecode? Or generated on disk by something else? If it was saved from

Spurious characters from html files - text encoding issues?

2021-05-17 Thread Keith Clarke via use-livecode
Hi folks, I’m using LiveCode to summarise text from HTML documents into csv summary files and am noticing that when I extract strings from html documents stored on disk - rather than visiting the sites via the browser widget & grabbing the HTML text - weird characters being inserted in place of