Yes - it's taken from the wild (an HTML page on the internet). Then turned into XML, then a table extracted etc - so looks to me like non-utf8 stuff has go in there somewhere.
That's why I was wandering if there was a way to filter out arbitrary text and make it utf8-safe. You know urlencode for utf8 - or plain text? I don't want to encode all the spaces and normal / safe chars - just whatever weird stuff got into the data? On 24 July 2015 at 00:12, Monte Goulding <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 24 Jul 2015, at 7:22 am, David Bovill <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'm placing the text into an array and then using Monte's mergJsonEncode > > function to decode it. Usually works fine - but in this case it looks > like > > the content needs some tidying before I put it into the array. > > mergJSON will choke on anything that’s not utf8. Is it possible there’s > some other encoded data there or something you are doing with the data is > messing with the encoding? > > -- > M E R Goulding <http://goulding.ws/> > Software development services > Bespoke application development for vertical markets > > mergExt <http://mergext.com/> - There's an external for that! > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
