Decompress cross platform
J. Landman Gay
jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Fri Oct 3 13:24:01 EDT 2003
On 10/3/03 4:28 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
>
> On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 02:45 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
>> I may be mis-remembering, but I thought character conversions were now
>> done on custom properties as well as on fields. Or was I dreaming > that?
>
>
> From the dictionary entry for ISOToMac():
>
>> Revolution automatically translates text in fields and scripts, as
>> well as the names of custom properties, into the appropriate character
>> set when you move a stack from one platform to another. It is
>> therefore not necessary to translate them. However, the contents of
>> custom properties, since they may contain binary data, are not
>> translated automatically and must be translated if they contain
>> characters whose ASCII value is 128 or greater.
So I was mis-remembering. Good. It's just the names that are translated.
> Maybe the compressed htmlText could go into a custom property.
Yes, I think that's what I'll do. It solves everything.
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