I use a LiveCode app (OSX) to parse text taken from Word files, glean relevant data, write records to a database and also reformat the original text in certain ways. I copy and paste text from Word into a field in my app, click a button and it does the rest, until I upgraded to 5.0x.
I'll say up front the details of text encoding are not my strong suit. With earlier versions (RunRev 4.x and earlier), I'd sometimes have to write special routines to search and replace certain characters from the pasted text. For example, the em-dash, "" (chartonum 209), which after pasting from Word was seen by RunRev as two characters (a two-byte character?), numtochar of 32 followed by numtochar of 20 so I wrote a routine to just search and replace to numToChar of 209. My new problem is that with LiveCode 5.0x (I just upgraded to 5.02), the em-dash if pasted from a Word file instantly disappears from the text. This... Berlin, Germany, December 12 becomes this... Berlin, Germany, December 12 This probably affects other characters; I'm not yet sure which ones. Any suggestions how I can seamlessly copy and paste the em-dash and other characters like it from Word to a LiveCode field? The only workaround, very inelegant, that I've found is to copy and paste from Word to TextEdit and then from TextEdit to LiveCode app. Not a welcome extra step. Thanks in advance. Sieg _______________________________________________ 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
