There is not a circumstance in which I will need to use multi-byted. ASCII would be fine, but it is missing the section (§) symbol, and the occasional ñ in a name.
I do, however, have to deal with the mac/windows/unix character set split. Particularly, I need to watch for things being pasted in, both by users and in the development environment. I suppose the set of problematic characters is fairly small--section & paragraphs symbols, and curly quotes being the notable ones. Is there a civilized way to catch incoming text pasted into a field and cover it properly? Ideally, in a way that would catch that someone had copied from one of those idiotic web pages that were made with ms word and have windows characters, even though the person was using a mac? And once generated, my pdfs need to be able to print/view on a different platform. Should I be playing with htmlText to force this? When I'm generating a new form, I generally paste from the host pdf to label fields. I then have a script that tests the text for formatting, and saves that information. Could I do some testing here? -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _______________________________________________ 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
