Mark,
Success! Greatly appreciate your walking me through this.
Have a great weekend.
Tim Selander
Tokyo, Japan
On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 7:15 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
On 2018-06-01 12:53, Tim Selander via use-livecode wrote:
Hi Mark,
Here is the script. The files I'm using are
bamboobabies.com/getjapanesetext.lc, and the text it is getting is
bamboobabies.com/news.txt.
In the script, there are two lines reading the text file that I've
taken turns commenting out....
If you can give me any hints, it would be greatly appreciated.
Tim Selander
<?lc put header "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF8">
<title>workbench</title>
</head>
<body>
<?lc
--This line loads readable japanese text, but putting char 500 to 550
breaks beginning and ending kanji
put url "http://bamboobabies.com/news.txt"; into vText
--When this line is used, none of the put text is readable
--put textDecode(url "binfile:bamboobabies.com/news.txt", "utf-8") into
vText
put line 1 of vText
put "<BR><BR><BR><BR>"
put char 500 to 550 of vText
?>
</body>
</html>
Try this:
<?lc set the outputTextEncoding to "utf-8" ?>
<?lc put header "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF8">
<title>workbench</title>
</head>
<body>
<?lc
--This line loads readable japanese text, but putting char 500 to 550
breaks beginning and ending kanji
put textDecode(url "http://bamboobabies.com/news.txt";, "utf-8") into vText
put line 1 of vText
put "<BR><BR><BR><BR>"
put char 500 to 550 of vText
?>
</body>
</html>
The problem you are having is that your text-file is UTF-8, but the engine
doesn't know that - you need to explicit decode it into a LiveCode string
using textDecode. You can then manipulate it as chars etc. correctly with
Unicode. That solves the 'getting data into livecode in the form needed'
problem.
The other side of the problem is the text encoding used when you do 'put'.
By default this is 'native' - by setting the outputTextEncoding at the
start, the engine will automatically encode any strings you 'put' with the
encoding specified.
Hope this helps!
Mark.
--
Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
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