Interesting, thanks ..... I think I ran into this before. WIll double check to default to text mode.
On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 2:42 PM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I want to give everyone a heads up. I created a handler to convert a > Konica address book to a Toshiba one. First I open the Konica address book > using binary read. But for some reason itemOffset was not working, and > neither did “contains”. I couldn’t figure it out until I copy/pasted a line > of the binary data into the message box, and then tried to backspace to > shorten the line (thinking it might be too long). To my surprise, I had to > backspace twice for every character, leading me to believe the file might > be UTF-16! > > I used open file filename for read (without the binary) and all is well. I > guess the moral of the story is, if you don’t *have* to open binary, don’t. > > Bob S > > _______________________________________________ > 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
