Is the revFont external unreliable?
viktoras didziulis
viktoras at ekoinf.net
Mon Jun 2 11:12:05 EDT 2008
just noticed when using the uniencode/unidecode method (as was described
in revdataFromQuery and umlauts etc. thread some time ago) to diplay
data loaded from sqlite database in compiled application (Windows, Rev
2.9) some unicode Eastern European fonts turn into black sticks. In
development environment everything works and fonts are rendered
correctly. Fonts are included during compilation and revfont.dll is
present in externals folder. What else is there to check for ? Or is
this a failure of revFont external and it is time to visit the QC?
Best wishes
Viktoras
Ian Wood wrote:
>
> On 20 May 2008, at 14:42, Trevor DeVore wrote:
>
>> You are probably dealing with encoding issues. Maybe the data is
>> stored as UTF8? In that case you would have to do the following:
>>
>> put uniencode(tVID, "UTF8") into tVID -- change to UTF16 which Rev
>> undestands.
>> put unidecode(tVID) into tVID -- Now it is in a format specific to
>> platform.
>>
>> I store all unformatted text in SQLite as UTF8 and run it through
>> similar functions.
>
> Bingo! Presumably SQLite Browser and the SQLite command tool are both
> doing this step automatically.
>
> Thanks Trevor!
>
> Ian
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