text encoding q, problems with networked folder and IDE

Alex Rice alrice at ARCplanning.com
Fri Jul 11 13:59:01 EDT 2003


On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 03:21  AM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:
> 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.

Are all substacks converted as well? It would be silly to have to open 
each substack, but I just wanted to make sure. Thanks,

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
http://ARCplanning.com




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