Unicode revisited, this time with htmlText

[Alex Rice]

On Nov 19, 2003, at 2:00 PM, Klaus Major wrote:

>> Since Rev's preferred unicode format is UTF-8,
>
> Who told you so or where did you read this?
> The dox are quite "neutral" about this ;-)

I thought that uniEncode() returned UTF-8, but it seems I totally 
misread the docs. uniEncode() products UTF-16 aka "unicode" or "w", 
right?

> In my experience UTF8 ALWAYS produces extremely "eastern" characters 
> ;-)
> when setting the htmltext of flield to that file...

Consistency is good :-)

> Important hint -> use BINFILE:
> ...
> set the htmltext of fld x to url"BINFILE:yadda.txt"
>

Thanks for the reminder- in fact I was forgetting binfile also.

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