Actually, only the first 128 characters are reliably consistent. The upper 128 characters vary between DOS (Code Page 437) and "standard" encoding ISO-8859-1 (which, in turn, is slightly different from Windows CP 1252). The only built-in functions in LC are the MacToISO and ISOtoMac functions, so that won't help you here. You'll have to write your own function to replace upper-ascii characters. There is a handy comparison of the various common ascii character sets at <http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html>. Wikipedia entries for the various encodings can also be helpful, as they have complete character charts.
HTH Devin On Aug 6, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > The first 256 characters should be the same in both. Do you have characters > that exceed the normal ASCII characters? > > Bob > > > On Aug 6, 2012, at 11:04 AM, Matthias Rebbe wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> i have here an ascii text, created under Dos, which i have to convert at >> least to windows ansi. Because i have to do this very often in future i >> wanted to create a routine with LiveCode which does the convert for me. Can >> this be done with a livecode command/function or do i have to create a >> script to replace the wrong displayed characters? Devin Asay Humanities Technology and Research Support Center Brigham Young University _______________________________________________ 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
