Well, Dave :) This worked perfectly. Thank you for taking the time to look into this - it really helped me. It also taught me that I need to learn more about uniencode and unidecode.
Again - a huge thanks! Take care, Jonathan On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Dave Cragg <dave.cr...@lacscentre.co.uk>wrote: > > On 19 Aug 2013, at 17:04, Jonathan Lynch <jonathandly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > This is just the strangest thing. On some websites - but not all - trying > > to get the html of that website using "get url" or "put url" is causing > > some characters to be substituted. > > > > These are not obscure unicode characters. They seem to be characters in > the > > upper ANSI set. > > > > For example, on this web page: > > http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/wildfires/facts.asp > > > > If I use the following code: > > > > put URL "http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/wildfires/facts.asp"; into > field > > 1 > > > > The right single quote character --> ’ <-- ( which is character number > 146) > > gets converted into ’ > > > > > > I do not understand why ’ becomes ’ > > > > Jonathan, > > The page source for the url indicates the page is encoded as UTF-8. This > is from the 'head' section of the page. > > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> > > So it looks like it may be 'obscure unicode characters'. :-) > > What happens when you do something like this: > > put URL "http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/wildfires/facts.asp"; into > tTemp > put uniDecode(uniEncode(tTemp, "UTF8")) into field 1 > > Cheers > Dave Cragg > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Do all things with love _______________________________________________ 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
