Hi Malte, You're making this way too complicated. Just *always* use the unicodeText. It will always be encoded as UTF16 and you can always decode it to UTF8. Easy.
-- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 New: Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.6 for LiveCode here http://qery.us/ce On 1 jun 2011, at 15:23, Malte Brill wrote: > Thanks mark and Slava! > > well, this is getting me a bit further. Now if only I knew if I could > reliably check if the text in my field regular ASCII or UTF encoded, that > would really make my day. > > Cheers, > > malte > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
