...if you have control overt the Word environment, I think I'd look into enforcing straight quotes prior to export. It's an options/preferences setting and I seem to remember it being possible to set all quotes to straight, via a command - so that HTML export doesn't get corrupted.
Good luck! Keith.. On 2 Sep 2011, at 21:15, Jonathan Lynch wrote: > Hi Keith, > I just tried doing this with the useunicode set to true, but the apostrophe > was still absent. > > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Keith Clarke < > keith.cla...@clarkeandclarke.co.uk> wrote: > >> Jonathan, check that you have the useUnicode property set to true in your >> handler, as it's clear that the code for curly quotes (2019) is way up above >> the 127-255 range that numtochar will support without unicode enabled. >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark_glyphs >> >> I've not had to dig into unicode yet, so I don't know too much more, but >> it's a recurring theme for community members, so the archives may be useful. >> Best, >> Keith.. >> >> On 2 Sep 2011, at 20:28, J. Landman Gay wrote: >> >>> On 9/2/11 2:08 PM, Keith Clarke wrote: >>>> I'm confused, how do you know the characters are missing until you >>>> paste the clipboard contents somewhere within LC to render them and >>>> see them? >>> >>> The clipboardData is already a variable, so examining it to see what was >> actually copied should show accurate info. But you do make a good point, >> because looking at the variable contents has to put it into a field >> somewhere, even if it's only in the variable watcher. It may be the field >> rendering that's wrong instead of the clipboard content. >>> >>> Jonathan, you could test that with something like this: >>> >>> get the clipboardData["text"] >>> put numToChar(<whatever Word uses>) is in it >>> >>> If the message box shows true, then the characters are in there but the >> field isn't rendering them. You can then do a replace looking for >> numToChar(<whatever>) and replacing those with regular apostrophes. >>> >>> There was a bug in the database about copying text from Word. It was >> fixed and closed some time ago, but if the above doesn't work I think you >> should enter another bug report about it. >>> >>> -- >>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com >>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > > > > -- > Do all things with love > _______________________________________________ > 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
