Re: Getting rid of Unicode characters

2014-02-19 Thread Richmond
On 19/02/14 03:18, Robert Sneidar wrote: Plaintext will not remove characters, which is what he wants. What he REALLY wants is something to remove ann non-printing characters from a chunk. I cannot help but believe there is a regex way to do this. I have a stack that demonstrates how to filte

Re: Getting rid of Unicode characters

2014-02-18 Thread Robert Sneidar
Plaintext will not remove characters, which is what he wants. What he REALLY wants is something to remove ann non-printing characters from a chunk. I cannot help but believe there is a regex way to do this. Bob On Feb 18, 2014, at 10:04 AM, Devin Asay wrote: > Skip, > > Have you looked at

Re: Getting rid of Unicode characters

2014-02-18 Thread Devin Asay
Skip, Have you looked at the plaintext property of fields? I think it converts non-convertible characters to a '?' It might be a tool you could use. Devin Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 17, 2014, at 2:20 PM, "Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel" > wrote: > > Thank you! This should give me somet

Re: Getting rid of Unicode characters

2014-02-17 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Feb 17, 2014, at 4:30 PM, Richmond wrote: > Sorry, off to have a bath. TMI, Richmond. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Getting rid of Unicode characters

2014-02-17 Thread Richmond
On 17/02/14 23:20, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote: Thank you! This should give me something to go on. Something much better I just whipped up here: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=19188 Sorry, off to have a bath. Richmond. ___

Re: Getting rid of Unicode characters

2014-02-17 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
Thank you! This should give me something to go on. On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Richmond wrote: > On 17/02/14 22:15, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote: > >> Is there a way to scan a field for "extra" characters or non-English >> characters? I am trying to create a verification process

Re: Getting rid of Unicode characters

2014-02-17 Thread Richmond
On 17/02/14 22:15, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote: Is there a way to scan a field for "extra" characters or non-English characters? I am trying to create a verification process for some imported text and get rid of these characters in one swoop. Any guidance here would be greatly apprec

Getting rid of Unicode characters

2014-02-17 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
Is there a way to scan a field for "extra" characters or non-English characters? I am trying to create a verification process for some imported text and get rid of these characters in one swoop. Any guidance here would be greatly appreciated as always! Thanks again, SKIP ___