Mark,

Here's a selection of my code. It really is quite simple.

I first retrieve the text from the native text input control:

put mobileControlGet(myInputID,"unicodeText") into tUserName

This user name then gets saved to a SQLite database. Then the user name is 
placed in a LiveCode field using:

set the unicodeText of field "name" to tUserName

This works if I use the Russian keyboard to enter text (I've just been using 
Russian, btw; I imagine the same problem would occur with any language). 
However, if I enter a name using the English keyboard, it doesn't work. The 
LiveCode is either empty or, in some cases, it will display the first character 
only.

I think the breakdown is in saving to the database. It seems like SQLite's 
unicode conversion may not be working correctly. But I tried a uniDecode() when 
saving to the db, and a uniEncode when retrieving, and that didn't seem to make 
any difference. Have you ever dealt with this before? Any other thoughts?

Thanks for you help,
Chris

On Oct 30, 2012, at 9:57 AM, Mark Schonewille 
<m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote:

> Chris,
> 
> Post your script to show the encoding. You should encode Russian and English 
> text in exactly the same way. If it works for Russian, then it works for 
> English.
> 
> If it only disaplays the first character, then there is probable a NULL 
> character somewhere, which indicates double-byte encoding, while your scripts 
> treats it as single-byte encoding. Just a hunch.
> 
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> 
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> On 30 okt 2012, at 16:51, Chris Sheffield wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for the quick reply, Mark.
>> 
>> I've tried treating all text as unicode, but the characters from the English 
>> keyboard still don't work right. But maybe my problem is in the conversion. 
>> So I'm retrieving the unicodeText property of the native text field. Then 
>> I'm using the unicodeText property of a LiveCode field to display the 
>> entered text. And in that field, I either have garbled text, or it just gets 
>> chopped off, only displaying maybe the first character. There is something 
>> goofy, but I think it's probably just my lack of knowledge of how this 
>> should work.
>> 
>> Chris
> 
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