More Unicode woes

[Toma Tasovac]

try this:

put the unicodeText of fld "text" into tText
put uniDecode (tText,"utf8") into url "file:mysavedtext.txt"

it works for me -- at least with cyrillic.  opens correctly in bbedit 
if you tell bbedit to open it as utf8, but not if you try to open it 
with auto-detect.

all best,
Toma



On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 04:19  PM, Kjetil Rå Hauge wrote:

> I'm trying to script an application (on Mac OS X) that will enable 
> users to produce HTML pages in a number of non-latin-1 languages, with 
> utf-8. For this purpose, I obviously need to export Unicode text to a 
> file: "write the unicodetext of field "text" to file thefile".
>
> The results are rather frustrating. Cyrillic seems to get translated 
> to two-byte sequences, but not the correct ones: the first letters of 
> the alphabet ("abvgd...") come out as "x0x1x2x3x4", where "x" is ASCII 
> 4. Characters from the CE fonts (Czech, Polish) and Greek cause BBEdit 
> to complain about a corrupted or malformed utf-8 file, while Turkish 
> special characters cause no such complaint (but are still wrong).
>
> I have tried to use the uniencode function instead, with the 
> ",language" parameter, but with similar results. Using "binfile" also 
> does not change things.
>
> If I export as htmltext instead of unicodetext, all four of these 
> types are recognised throught their fonts ("font face = "Times CE" 
> /"Times CY") and the characters are translated to correct HTML 
> numerical entiities, except for the CE fonts, which are translated as 
> if their font was changed to plain Times.
>
> Also, when I try to use the character palette, the button "Insert" is 
> not dimmed, but does not work. (Microsoft Word with its miserable 
> Unicode support at least has the decency to dim it.)
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