On 12/14/11 12:47 PM, FlexibleLearning wrote:
This scriptlet looks like a means of ensuring that accented and unicode
characters in plain text format transfer between platforms to me rather than
a bridge between text editors.
Yes, you're right. When it went through the list, that was apparently
the problem but I guess in this case it isn't.
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
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