spaces between each character?

[Devin Asay]

On May 22, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Todd Geist wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am loading an xml file into a field using "put URL"  but there are
> spaces bewteen each character. I know this has something to do with
> the encoding, but I don't know what to do about it
>
>
> here is my script
>
>  answer File "pick"
>    put  "file:"& it into tURL
>    put URL tURL into field "field"
>
> here is what the text looks like in the field
>
> "þÿ < ? x m l   v e r s i o n = " 1 . 0 "   e n c o d i n g = " U T  
> F - 8 " ? >
> < p r o j e c t s >
>     < p r o j e c t >
> "
>
> etc. etc.
>
>
> Any ideas

Todd,

Try uniencoding it:

    answer File "pick"
    put  "binfile:"& it into tURL
    put URL tURL into myVar
    set the unicodeText of field "field" to uniencode(myVar,"utf8")

HTH

Devin


Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University