That's what I was thinking. So the filename for " l’Académie française" might becomes something like lAcadmiefranaise_1234.livecode. Kind of readable, but guaranteed unique. (And also allows identifying the database record from the filename if that is needed.)
(Apologies if this appears twice.) > > I'm pretty sure each record has an ID. This would be for ensuring unique file > names, right? > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > On September 24, 2020 2:00:50 AM Dave Cragg via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> Jacqueline, >> >> You said earlier you don't have a field in the database for the file name. >> But does the database table have a unique numerical ID field for each >> record? If so, could you strip out the non-ASCII characters and then append >> the numerical ID to the file name? >> >>> On 23 Sep 2020, at 20:59, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode >>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>> >>> I'm drifting toward the idea of removing non-ascii characters. That might >>> satisfy all requirements, at least for now. We don't do Sanskrit or Chinese >>> yet. Or alternately I could bite the bullet and convert my build tool to >>> insert metadata into the clickable lists. That isn't terribly difficult, I >>> was just wondering if there was a different way using what we already have. >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
