mac and pc text file

[Devin Asay]

On Jul 27, 2009, at 11:51 AM, Yves COPPE wrote:

> Hi list
>
>
> I've made a soft which create a texte file
> The problem is that if this text file is saved on a Pc and then read
> on a mac, some characters are not readable
> How can I make a script that saves a text contained in a variable to a
> text file with the same characters on mac AND on windows ?

Yves,

The problem is that Mac and Windows use different character sets for  
characters > ASCII 127. The Mac's character set is called MacRoman and  
Windows uses Windows-1252, which is nearly identical the the standard  
ISO Latin 1 (8859-1).

Check out the macToISO and ISOtoMac functions in the dictionary. They  
let you convert upper-ASCII characters so they display properly on the  
current platform.

Regards,

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University