text encoding q, problems with networked folder and IDE

[Ivers, Doug E]

Is this also true for built standalones, or does this conversion occur
during the build?




On 1/9/03 5:21 AM, "Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <jeanne at runrev.com> wrote:

> At 11:44 AM -0800 1/7/03, Alex Rice wrote:
>> 3) I remember reading somewhere that one should open the stack using
>> Revolution IDE on the target platform, then save the stack, to convert
>> the text encoding of all the cards. Is this correct? Anything else to
>> get the text encoding converted correctly? I'm mainly interested in
>> fast startup times.
> 
> That's right. From the docs:
> ------
> When you save a stack, its text is encoded using either the ISO character
> set (on Unix or Windows systems) or the Macintosh character set (on Mac OS
> or OS X systems). If you open the stack on a system that uses the other
> character set, Revolution converts all the text in the stack to use the
> current character set, and the process takes noticeable time if the stack
> contains a great deal of text in fields or scripts.
> -----
> So the text is converted automatically when you open the stack on the other
> set of platforms (Mac OS/OS X versus Unix/Windows), and you just have to
> save it to get the benefit.
> 
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