characters lost pasting from Word To LiveCode field

[J. Landman Gay]

On 12/13/11 5:09 PM, Sieg Lindstrom wrote:

> 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.

Someone once posted a function to the list that translates Word text to 
useable LiveCode text. I saved it but haven't ever tried it. I wish I'd 
also recorded who wrote it:

function revText theText
    return unidecode(uniencode(theText,"utf8"))
end revText

Use that on the clipboard contents and see if it does what you need.

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