characters lost pasting from Word To LiveCode field

[Bob Sneidar]

Yes. It's called "Textedit". You 2 hop it and all works wonderfully. Now that I think about it, I wonder what Applescript could do...

Bob


On Dec 13, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Bernard Devlin wrote:

> Is it possible to export the text from Word as RTF, then import into
> Livecode as RTF?
> 
> Bernard
> 
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Sieg Lindstrom
> <sl at trackandfieldnews.com>wrote:
> 
>> I use a LiveCode app (OSX) to parse text taken from Word files, glean
>> relevant data, write records to a database and also reformat the original
>> text in certain ways. I copy and paste text from Word into a field in my
>> app, click a button and it does the rest, until I upgraded to 5.0x.
>> 
>> I'll say up front the details of text encoding are not my strong suit. With
>> earlier versions (RunRev 4.x and earlier), I'd sometimes have to write
>> special routines to search and replace certain characters from the pasted
>> text. For example, the em-dash, "‹" (chartonum 209), which after pasting
>> from Word was seen by RunRev as two characters (a two-byte character?),
>> numtochar of 32 followed by numtochar of 20 so I wrote a routine to just
>> search and replace to numToChar of 209. My new problem is that with
>> LiveCode
>> 5.0x (I just upgraded to 5.02), the em-dash if pasted from a Word file
>> instantly disappears from the text.
>> 
>> This...
>> 
>> Berlin, Germany, December 12‹
>> 
>> becomes this...
>> 
>> Berlin, Germany, December 12
>> 
>> This probably affects other characters; I'm not yet sure which ones. Any
>> suggestions how I can seamlessly copy and paste the em-dash and other
>> characters like it from Word to a LiveCode field? The only workaround, very
>> inelegant, that I've found is to copy and paste from Word to TextEdit and
>> then from TextEdit to LiveCode app. Not a welcome extra step. Thanks in
>> advance.
>> 
>> Sieg
>> 
>> 
>> 
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