Re: Strange Characters...

2015-05-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/14/2015 1:28 PM, Richmond wrote: Sort out the search feature so a list is available that does not require the searcher to be able to guess all sorts of things to get the sort of information they are trying to get. Easy. Go to . Click the giant Search button. Fo

Re: Strange Characters...

2015-05-14 Thread Richmond
On 14/05/15 21:22, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/14/2015 12:48 PM, John Dixon wrote: it is a 'show stopper' and I do not think that it is unreasonable to ask if and when it will be fixed.. Me either, though I think that info is hard to predict. I was mostly responding to Richmond's comment that

Re: Strange Characters...

2015-05-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/14/2015 12:48 PM, John Dixon wrote: it is a 'show stopper' and I do not think that it is unreasonable to ask if and when it will be fixed.. Me either, though I think that info is hard to predict. I was mostly responding to Richmond's comment that engineers should spend their time updatin

Re: Strange Characters...

2015-05-14 Thread Richmond
On 14/05/15 20:38, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/14/2015 4:37 AM, Richmond wrote: RunRev's recent track record seems to be that bugs (at least those submitted by users) get picked at "random()" A while back I posted the priorities used for bug fixes. They are not random; by necessity they are tr

Re: Strange Characters...

2015-05-14 Thread Mark Waddingham
be fixed.. > > John Dixon > >> Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 12:38:18 -0500 >> From: jac...@hyperactivesw.com >> To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Subject: Re: Strange Characters... > >> A while back I posted the priorities used for bug fixes. They are not &

RE: Strange Characters...

2015-05-14 Thread John Dixon
hen it will be fixed.. John Dixon > Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 12:38:18 -0500 > From: jac...@hyperactivesw.com > To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Subject: Re: Strange Characters... > A while back I posted the priorities used for bug fixes. They are not > random; by necessity they

Re: Strange Characters...

2015-05-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/14/2015 4:37 AM, Richmond wrote: RunRev's recent track record seems to be that bugs (at least those submitted by users) get picked at "random()" A while back I posted the priorities used for bug fixes. They are not random; by necessity they are triaged. I think one of the best things R

Re: Strange Characters...

2015-05-14 Thread Richmond
On 14/05/15 13:03, Terence Heaford wrote: On 14 May 2015, at 10:37, Richmond wrote: In fact I think one of the best things RunRev could do at the moment is release a list of unsolved bugs alongside a schedule for sorting them out: this would serve 2 purposes: 1. It would force RunRev to addre

Re: Strange Characters...

2015-05-14 Thread Terence Heaford
> On 14 May 2015, at 10:37, Richmond wrote: > > In fact I think one of the best things RunRev could do at the moment is > release a list of unsolved bugs alongside > a schedule for sorting them out: this would serve 2 purposes: > > 1. It would force RunRev to address some seriously long-term b

Re: Strange Characters...

2015-05-14 Thread Richmond
e RunRev to address some seriously long-term bugs fairly promptly. 2. It would calm us down knowing that there was a point in submitting bug reports. Richmond. Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 16:54:56 +0200 From: m...@livecode.com To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Strange Characters... On

RE: Strange Characters...

2015-05-14 Thread John Dixon
the number 15336 appear in the list of bug fixes ? go gently > Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 16:54:56 +0200 > From: m...@livecode.com > To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Subject: Re: Strange Characters... > > On 2015-05-07 16:41, Mark Waddingham wrote: > > I suspect the data yo

Re: Strange Characters...

2015-05-07 Thread Richmond
On 07/05/15 16:47, John Dixon wrote: Now that we have unicode that 'just works' ?! Every time I come across anything that claims it 'just works' I laugh my socks off. CAn someone tell me what I am doing wrong, or even better what to do now as what used to work for me doesn't anymore...:-

Re: Strange Characters...

2015-05-07 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2015-05-07 16:41, Mark Waddingham wrote: I suspect the data you are getting passing to the client is encoded as UTF-8. In this case you should be able to set a 'Content-Type' HTTP header when sending back the data to 'text/plain; charset=utf-8' and in an ideal world libUrl would 'do the right

Re: Strange Characters...

2015-05-07 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2015-05-07 15:47, John Dixon wrote: Now that we have unicode that 'just works' ?! CAn someone tell me what I am doing wrong, or even better what to do now as what used to work for me doesn't anymore...:-( Using the lines below, I make a request to a datbase through an .lc script...The result

RE: Strange Characters...

2015-05-07 Thread Peter Haworth
in temp) in English then > everything is good... but when pulling the list in French, for example, any > char that has an accent, grave, acute or circumflex appears as garbage... > :-( > > > > Subject: Re: Strange Characters... > > From: colinholg...@gmail.com > >

RE: Strange Characters...

2015-05-07 Thread John Dixon
garbage... :-( > Subject: Re: Strange Characters... > From: colinholg...@gmail.com > Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 10:16:45 -0400 > To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > What values is the database expecting? > > ___ > use-livecode

Re: Strange Characters...

2015-05-07 Thread Colin Holgate
What values is the database expecting? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

RE: Strange Characters...

2015-05-07 Thread John Dixon
Colin... Thanks, but that does not work... nothing is returned..:-( > From: colinholg...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: Strange Characters... > Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 09:54:58 -0400 > To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > From what Mr Google suggests, URI and URL can’t have Uni

Re: Strange Characters...

2015-05-07 Thread Colin Holgate
From what Mr Google suggests, URI and URL can’t have Unicode characters in them, you have to UTF-8 encodes things. Try: put "http://www..com/spencerdata/index.lc?A=index&thetongue= " & uniEncode(thelanguage,”UTF8”) into t