On 12/13/11 5:09 PM, Sieg Lindstrom wrote:
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.
Someone once posted a function to the list that translates Word text to useable LiveCode text. I saved it but haven't ever tried it. I wish I'd also recorded who wrote it:
function revText theText return unidecode(uniencode(theText,"utf8")) end revText Use that on the clipboard contents and see if it does what you need. -- 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
