On 8/19/13 3:07 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
On Aug 19, 2013, at 1:59 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 8/19/13 2:43 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
When I run uniEncode(tData,"UTF8") on it, the high-ascii characters
are in the variable watcher as "+" and an unprintable box. Can I
assume the real character is in there? Will it work for text
chunking, etc? When I split it into an array, will the keys be
intact?
I would do all of the chunking and splitting before you do uniEncode.
Think of UTF8 as a reliable storage format, and only convert them
when you are ready to display them.
I can't. I need to do lookups on the keys. The keys have to match the
text as it is displayed in fields.
Basically, I'm storing a glossary. The keys are the glossary terms, some
of which are unicode. The definitions are the elements. The user points to a
word in a field and I need to retrieve the definition by matching the displayed
field text (which is unicodetext) with the glossary key.
I can't make it work.
Try this:
When the user selects the text to look up, convert it to utf8 then do the
lookup on the utf8 text. UTF8 is just ASCII chars, so chunking and searches
should work fine.
Something like this should work:
User clicks term to look up.
get the text of the click line -- this will be displayed as UTF16
put unidecode(it,"utf8") into tSearchStr
put glossaryArray[tSearchStr] into tDefinitionUTF8
set the unicodeText of fld "definition" to uniencode(tDefinitionUTF8,"utf8")
This is not tested, but I've done things similar to this before with good
success.
Thanks, I'll try it. The glossary is only one piece of a much bigger
data set involving a lot of different types of lookups, and this is
going to be a huge pain. I'm going to have to rewrite a large part of
the existing code base.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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