Problem with Terminal (shell) and its encoding

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Rolf,

set the unicodetext of fld x to uniencode(varLongUserName,"UTF8")

should work.

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On 4 nov 2008, at 14:39, Rolf Kocherhans wrote:

> Hello all
>
> I have a small problem with the following command:
>
> put shell("niutil -readprop . /users/`whoami` realname") into  
> varLongUsername
> answer varLongUsername
>
>
> If I execute "niutil -readprop . /users/`whoami` realname" in the  
> Terminal evan when
> the username includes non standard ascii character it is displayed  
> OK in the Terminal.
>
> But when I copy it to the Revolution side with the script above the  
> varLongUsername is
> garbled where the non acssi characters are !
>
> Hans anybody a clue how I can convert the garbage to the real  
> letters so that I can see
> the real "Long Username" of a person ?
>
> Regards
> Rolf