On 8/19/2015 2:34 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote:
On 2015-08-19 21:09, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Just to follow up: When importing foreign language files, "file" isn't
working. Non-ascii characters show up as question marks and textDecode
does nothing.
Using "binfile" and then textDecoding does import correctly but then
text chunking by lines fails. Line endings are imported as 2 bytes
using byteToNum 13,10 (in that order) which isn't the line ending
standard for any OS. I have to replace those specifically.
These are text files saved as UTF-8, created on Mac OS X and imported
on Mac OS X. I'm using LC 7.0.6.
Hmm, this all sounds quite problematic.
Obvious thing to check: are you sure your files are valid UTF-8? The
following command will print "0" if the file is valid UTF-8 and "1"
otherwise:
iconv -f UTF-8 your_file > /dev/null ; echo $?
Otherwise, if you have a test case that you don't mind sharing, could
you please file a bug report and add me (e-mail address below) to the Cc
list? Otherwise, please e-mail me directly. If you could test with
LiveCode 7.0.1-rc-1, that would also be quite helpful.
I *definitely can't* guarantee a quick fix, but it's possible something
obvious is going wrong or we can find a quick workaround.
Peter
Thanks very much. The terminal command returns 0 (and BBEdit can handle
the file too) so it seems to be valid. I'll submit a bug report, I can
share the file without any issues.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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