On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 3:42 AM, Fraser Gordon <fraser.gor...@livecode.com> wrote:
> One way of looking at things is that all external interfaces (files, > processes, etc) return binary data and you need to do something to turn > that into text (textDecode) and you need to turn your text into binary data > when writing to them (textEncode). By using something like UTF-8 as an > encoding, it also avoids the problems that occur because the “native” > encoding differs between our platforms - it is MacRoman on OSX, CP1252 on > Windows and ISO-8859-1 on Linux. Thanks Fraser, I like that explanation, plus it answers the next question I had regarding ISOToMac/MacToISO. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> _______________________________________________ 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
