On Dec 13, 2011, at 9:02 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > 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. >
No workie Jacque. From word I get empty. From Textedit I get — If I put just the clipboardData from Word I get nothing. If I put the clipboardData from Textedit I get an emDash. Bottom line: Microsoft does not play well with Livecode's clipboard. Other apps are fine. Bob _______________________________________________ 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
