CharTo Num and NumToChar still work just fine, deprecation notwithstanding.
LC would not permit a new version to break old code if they could at all help
it. I never really migrated over to the updated “codePoint” version. I hope
this laziness does not bite me one day.
Craig
I think you nailed it Bernd. That scans with all that I am seeing in
troubleshooting.
Bob S
> On Sep 15, 2024, at 11:50 AM, Niggemann, Bernd via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> charToNum has been deprecated, I think since LC 7.0
>
> It is replaced by nativeCharToNum() and byteToNum
OK so I determined that the native export file from the Toshiba Address Book
Export is putting some non-display (probably unicode) characters at the
beginning of the file. They don’t appear in any text editor but they are there
because when I do a char by char comparison, the very first char in
Actually I think what I need to do is figure out what the original file
encoding is, and use that when I write out the export file.
Bob S
> On Sep 16, 2024, at 2:06 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
>
> OK so I determined that the native export file from the Toshiba Address Book
> Export is putting so
