Unicode revisited, this time with htmlText

[Klaus Major]

Hi Toma,

> As usual, I have a question about Unicode :)  I have a text field 
> whose textFont is set to "Lucida Grande", Unicode.  I am using the 
> message box to get some html text in it -- and I can't get it to work 
> properly.  The Transcript Dictionary entry for htmlText says that the 
> lang attribute and ability to encode Unicode characters was added in 
> 2.0 but does not go into great detail explain how that is to be done.
>
> set the htmlText of field "Field 1" to "<b>hello</b>"    -- produces 
> CJK gibberish
> set the htmlText of field "Field 1" to uniencode("<b>hello</b>", 
> "utf8") -- produces different CJK gibberish
>
> Trying the same with a Cyrillic string:
>
> set the htmlText of field "Field 1" to "<b>добар дан</b>" -- correctly 
> displays the first word, second word is gibberish
> set the htmlText of field "Field 1" to uniencode("<b>добар дан</b>", 
> "utf8") -- displays complete gibberish
>
> SO: what would be the correct syntax for displaying Unicode in 
> htmlText?  and how do I make sure that both English and non-English 
> strings are displayed properly?

HTMLtext works for me here, but only via another field.

I saved your example in TextEdit as plain-text (coding UTF16, when set 
to UTF8, all the text turns to "chinese" in RR?),
and imported it into a field
...
set the unicodetext of fld 1 to url("binfile:toma.txt")
...

And could then set the htmltext of any field to any chunk of that field 
like

  set the htmltext of fld 2 to the htmltext of line 1 of fld 1

etc...

Hope that helps...

> All best,
> Toma

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
www.major-k.de