Thanks Peter, that works fine. Perhaps you could add a cross reference in the docs at uniEncode/uniDecode to textEncode/textDecode, that would have helped me. I know, that there was written a lot about UTF-8 when it was released in LC7, but if you don't need it at that time, it is hard to find the related links later when you need it. Tiemo
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Peter TB Brett Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Dezember 2016 14:51 An: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Betreff: Re: understanding on how to handle UTF-8 import/export On 06/12/2016 13:42, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > In my LC 6 programs I have uniEncoded and uniDecoded text when > exporting/importing text to an xml file via revXML. > > Now with LC 8 everything internal in LC is UTF-8 and since > uniDecode/uniEncode is deprecated my first thought was, that I could > straight export/import text from LC fields into an xml file > (encoding=UTF-8), without any special charset handling anymore. But > obviously this isn't the fact. Doing so, the text is corrupted in the > xml file (checking with an editor) and trying to import the file > again, fails with an import error regarding the encoding of the file. > Using my old mechanic with the deprecated functions > uniDecode/uniEncode still works fine, but I shouldn't use these functions anymore. Hi Tiemo, I think you have run into bug 18927 [1]. You can use the textEncode() function to encode strings to UTF-8 before passing them to revXML commands. For example: revXMLSetAttribute tTheTreeID,"root/node1", "myAttribute", \ textEncode(the text of fld "Input","utf-8") I hope that helps. Peter [1] http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18927 -- Dr Peter Brett <peter.br...@livecode.com> LiveCode Technical Project Manager lcb-mode for Emacs: https://github.com/peter-b/lcb-mode _______________________________________________ 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
