Internally LiveCode uses UTF-16. You can try to decode your text from UTF-8 like this:
put url tUrl into tTextToDecode put textDecode(tTextToDecode,”UTF-8") into field “indices" regards Tore > 21. sep. 2016 kl. 06.30 skrev Nicolas Cueto <nicon...@gmail.com>: > > With Notepad++, created a new file, pasted English and Japanese text, set > encoding to UTF-8, then saved as .txt. (Confirmed the file by opening with > Windows' "Notepad".) > > Next, in LC8.1 ran this button script: > > on mouseUp > put empty into field "indices" > set the itemdel to quote > put item 2 of the long name of this stack into tDataPath > set the itemdel to "/" > delete the last item of tDataPath > put "/Data/bilingual.txt" after tDataPath > put "file:" & tDataPath into tURL > put url tURL into field "indices" > end mouseUp > > The text appears in the field, but with Japanese text garbled. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Thanks. > > -- > Nicolas Cueto > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
