Hi,
Please, post a simplified version of your actual script. Without script,
it is really difficult to see what you're doing wrong.
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On 9/3/2014 15:04, j...@souslelogo.com wrote:
Hi Mark,
Thanks for your reply, and sorry for the missing information.
I am on Mac OSX with LC 6.5.2. But a solution that works on different
platforms would be nice.
As I said, the contents of variable it come from files, which I assume are
in utf-8 (when I open them in BBedit or TextWrangler, it says UTF-8,
presumably MacRoman encoded XML files with some UTF8 encoded strings).
I don't use fields; the whole thing goes as follows :
file 1 -> var 1 -> processing -> var 2 -> file 2
In var 2 and file 2 I need to get a list of mySQL INSERT commands to be
executed on a server to fill a DB in utf-8.
When I follow your advice, in text file "file 2" the char "é" (for
instance) is
replaced by "é" (AFAIR this is the utf8 encodeing for "é"), and apparently
the file is in utf-8.
The only thing I wonder is : if I insert such strings into a DB, will they
display
the "é" as "é" in web pages with an utf-8 charset...
Best,
JB
Hi Jbv,
Lots of information is missing. First of all, which version of LiveCode
are you using? There are quite a few differences between 5, 6 and 7.
You provide one line of syntax, but it isn't clear where the contents of
the it variable comes from, e.g. from a file or a field.
It isn't clear if the files are 100% UTF8 or e.g. are they Latin1 or
MacRoman encoded XML files with some UTF8 encoded strings? (Not very
likely to happen, but perhaps something similar is going on).
Generally, if you import a UTF8 file into a field, you do this:
put url ("binfile:" & myUrl) into myData
put uniEncode(myData,"UTF8") into myData
set the unicodeText of fld 1 to myData
and to export you use
put the unicodeText of fld 1 into myData
put uniDecode(myData,"UTF8") into myData
put myData into url ("binfile:" & myUrl)
This should work with all versions, although LiveCode 7 will have
different ways to work with unicode text.
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On 9/3/2014 13:28, j...@souslelogo.com wrote:
Hi list
I have a script that accumulates successive strings into a file.
Each string comes from utf-8 text files and contains french
characters with accents like "é à ô".
After processing in the script, those strings get accumulated
in other txt files. I need these second serie of files to be in
utf-8 format too.
So I use the following code (found in this LC lesson :
http://lessons.runrev.com/m/4071/l/20441-unicode )
put (unidecode(it,"utf8") & return) after url tPath
but when I open the file tPath in a text editor, everything is
replaced by chinese chars...
What am I missing ?
Thanks in advance.
jbv
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