char(4) not replaceable?

[Sannyasin Sivakatirswami]

Unicode? could be... frankly I'm getting out of my depth now on 
character encodings and feel like going to school on this one to get up 
to speed. All kinds of wierdness now like characters pasted from 
Indesign turning into Osaka on OSX and also when pasted into REV ( and 
BBEdit too...) but then if you query for what the ascii is you get 
something that should be a regular character in the font that is set 
for the field...

I run TIDY on an BBEdit HTML file and Tidy goes nuts. If I just change 
the config to output UTF-8 instead of UTF-16, then it will process the 
file just fine... complete mystery... another html file, looks almost 
exactly the same, will process out under UTF-16, no problem... I don't 
see the diff between the two files...

  I'm drowning ... ;-)

any pointers on how best to come to grips with this new animal?

Unicode, UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO-8899  et al

all greek to me...though i have a general idea that there are some 
65,000 plus "spots" on a number series, each reserved for a character 
in some language which no one else can use...  but daily it seems we 
need to understand this thoroughly. Any training videos, tutorials, 
someone who we can hire to fly to Hawaii?

Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
Himalayan Academy Publications
at Kauai's Hindu Monastery
katir at hindu.org

www.HimalayanAcademy.com,
www.HinduismToday.com
www.Gurudeva.org
www.Hindu.org

On Apr 18, 2004, at 12:26 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

> on mouseUp
>   put "abc" & numToChar(4) & "def" into x
>   put length(x) & space
>   replace numToChar(4) with empty in x
>   put length(x)  after message
> end mouseUp
>
>   ==>
>
> 7 6
>
> This seems to work here.  (OS X)
>
> Unicode?
>
> Dar Scott