Character encoding is driving me insane

[klaus at major.on-rev.com]

Hejsan Fredrik,

> Hi there,
>
> I'm writing a small application that's supposed to keep track of  
> different tasks for certain people at work. I'm using a datagrid to  
> present the data and simple text files for storage. The problem is  
> that I tend to lose the characters åäö and ÅÄÖ (which we use a lot  
> here in Sweden).
>
> At first I simply loaded a tab-delimited file into the dgText of the  
> datagrid but that didn't work.
>
> After searching around on the forums/mailing list I found some code  
> for handling UTF-encoded text and thus I changed the "Open file"- 
> code to something like this:
>
> set the unicodetext of fld "importedData" of card "Data" to   
> uniencode(tFile,"UTF8")
>    put the fld "importedData" of card "Data" into tData
>
> And then I set the dgText to tData. This worked fine until I started  
> messing around with making some columns into presenting calculated  
> values only. Since I didn't need to save the data in those columns  
> to any file I started using the dgData-property to only save & load  
> specific fields instead.
>
> The problem is that now I lose my special characters. They simply do  
> not appear in the text. They're still there in the text file, just  
> not in the "importedData"-field and thus neither in the datagrid. I  
> have no idea why my first solution suddenly stopped working. The  
> text file is in the "UTF-8"-format.
>
> Does anyone out there have any good ideas of how to work with text  
> with special characters? Or perhaps you can point me toward a  
> previous thread with useful info. Right now I know nothing about  
> character encoding except that they make my life more difficult..  
> sigh.

Maybe this will help you:
<http://revolution.screenstepslive.com/spaces/revolution_tools/manuals/datagrid/lessons/3396-What-If-I-Need-to-Work-With-htmlText-rtfText-or-unicodeText- 
 >

At this url you can also download the latest DataGrid docs (as PDF)  
from the maestro Signore De Vore himself :-)

> Thanks,
>
> Fredrik Andersson

Best & adjö

Klaus

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