Andre, Not sure if this might help but there was a thread recently about using ISOToMac and MacToISO to handle ascii values above 127 entered on one platform and used on the other.
Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:27 AM, André Bisseret <andre.bisse...@wanadoo.fr>wrote: > Thank you much Dar for your reply. > > This morning I tried on Windows: > replace ":" with numToChar(240) in tDocName > no success > > but, actually, when I past the mysterious char (kind of period) in the > message box, I get "ð > I mean I get quote followed by ð > So I tried > put quote & numToChar(240) into tVar > replace ":" with tVar in tDocName > again no success > > When I paste the mysterious char directly in the script it is immediately > replaced by "?" > so I tried > replace ":" with "?" in tDocName > no success > > I am completely lost. > What could I do? > > Thanks in advance for any suggestion > > Best regards > > André > > > > > Le 18 juil. 2013 à 22:47, Dar Scott a écrit : > > > That is a lower case eth. The Unicode is 00F0, F0 in Latin-1. Windows > uses some other font encoding. > > > > You might be able to use that character directly whatever it looks like. > Windows will just see the code for it. On Windows. > > > > If it was saved to Windows and you are looking at it on Mac, then it > might look different. In all cases, if saved on Windows, then try > numToChar(240) whatever it looks like. > > > > Similarly, if it was saved on Mac, use the appropriate numToChar( ...). > > > > Dar > > > > > > On Jul 18, 2013, at 1:57 PM, André Bisseret wrote: > > > >> ð > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
