Mark, Yes! That works. Thank you so much!
Chris On Dec 22, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Read the file as binary, e.g. into variable myVar and then convert it with > > put uniDecode(uniEncode(myVar,"UTF8")) into myVar > > Now you can load the XML tree that's in myVar or parse it as standard ASCII > text. > > -- > Best regards, > > Mark Schonewille > > Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering > Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer > KvK: 50277553 > > Become our partner in sales http://qery.us/1bq Start selling Color Converter > today. 20% commission! > > On 22 dec 2011, at 19:47, Chris Sheffield wrote: > >> I need help. In more ways than one, but that's beside the point... >> >> I have a utf-8 encoded xml file that I'm reading data from for display in a >> text field. Everything seems to work just fine except for certain unicode >> characters, such as the em dash ("—"). When I read in the text and then set >> the htmlText property of the field, those characters are getting garbled. Am >> I just not understanding how unicode works? Do I need to do something >> special to make these characters appear correctly? >> >> What's strange is I can get that same character by using numToChar(209) in >> the LiveCode message box, but the character that is in my file does not seem >> to be the same one, even though on screen it looks identical. If I test it >> with something like: >> >> if numToChar(209) is in myText then >> >> it returns false. I'm stumped. >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> Chris >> >> >> -- >> Chris Sheffield >> Read Naturally, Inc. >> www.readnaturally.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
