Hi Phil (and others), Thanks for the response and thanks especially to Devin for the excellent article. I was able to get the Kanji to appear properly after processing the whole file and then issuing this command:
set the unicodetext of fld "ProcessedFile" to the uniencode(fld "ProcessedFile, "UTF8") Very easy when you know what to do :-) One puzzle still remaining though. After I got the Kanji to show up properly, I tried saving the file to a text file and when I opened it up in TextEdit, I had lost all the Kanji again. This surprised me because I thought that TextEdit was a UTF8-compliant app. I solved the problem by simply cutting and pasting from LiveCode to a TextEdit document (Kanji came intact) but I would still like to know how I could have saved the file as a text file from within LC and still have it work. Any ideas? On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Phil Davis <rev...@pdslabs.net> wrote: > Hi Howard, > > From one unicode-ignorant soul to another - > > Devin's explanation about LC & Unicode got me started: > > http://livecode.byu.edu/**unicode/unicodeInRev.php<http://livecode.byu.edu/unicode/unicodeInRev.php> > -- the good part is about a third of the way down > > Using this info + LC's various unicode functions + the styledText of a > field, I was recently able to paste multi-line Arabic text correctly. If I > can do that, you can do Kanji. Really! It reads left-to-right doesn't it? > > Best - > Phil > > > > > On 6/5/13 7:23 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote: > >> I have a client who wants me to do some processing on a spreadsheet file >> that has been saved in .csv format. One of the fields contain either >> English or Japanese. When I look at the fields with the Japanese, it looks >> like gibberish. It does not display as Kanji. >> >> I believe the full data is still there because if I open it up in Numbers, >> the Kanji is displayed correctly. However, I need to use the .cvs file to >> process and I can't, for the life of me, make the Kanji appear. >> >> I am *way* in over my head here with regards to different languages. I >> >> assume this is a unicode issue but I am completely ignorant in this area. >> >> My question is: how can I take a .cvs file, which contains some Kanji text >> but doesn't display as Kanji, and convert it so that, as a text file, it >> displays as Kanji again. I don't care where this conversion takes place--I >> am doing a bunch of other processing of the file in LC so it can be >> anywhere in the process. I'm not doing anything with the Kanji itself >> except displaying it. >> >> I'd appreciate any help but if it involves unicode, please assume you are >> talking to an imbecile. >> >> TIA >> >> > -- > Phil Davis > > > ______________________________**_________________ > 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<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > -- Regards, Howard Bornstein ----------------------- www.designeq.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
