Hi Trevor I’m pretty sure that the following will do what you want here:
textDecode(format(<file content>),”utf-8”) Cheers Monte > On 1 Jun 2018, at 6:13 am, Trevor DeVore via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a text file that contains Hex UTF-8 bytes encode in the following > manner: > > ``` > \xC3\xB3 > ``` > > This particular sequence represents the following character: > > ``` > ó > ``` > > I need to read this file in, converting these hex bytes to the proper > character. For example, the following string: > > ``` > versi\xC3\xB3n HTML5 > ``` > > should be read in as: > > ``` > versión HTML 5 > ``` > > Does anybody know how to use the C3 B3 hex values to generate the proper > character? > > Thanks, > > -- > Trevor DeVore > ScreenSteps > www.screensteps.com > _______________________________________________ > 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
