the selectedText of a Unicode field

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Slava,

You can try this:

set the unicodetext of fld "YourSelection" to the unicodetext of the selection

or

set the unicodetext of fld "YourSelection" to the unicodetext of the selectedChunk

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On 17 jun 2011, at 09:31, Slava Paperno wrote:

> Briefly, here is the problem:
> 
> put the selectedText of field "BilingualText" of this card into
> tCurrSelection
> --the field may hold, for example, the two words Боб Bob, which is the
> string assigned to the unicodeText prop. of the field
> 
> set the unicodeText of field "YourSelection" of this card to tCurrSelection
> 
> --alternatively:
> set the unicodeText of field "YourSelection" of this card to
> uniEncode(tCurrSelection, "UTF8")
> 
> Neither alternative works for bilingual text. One version works only for
> English, the other works only for Russian. In each case, the other language
> is unreadable in field "YourSelection".
> 
> In detail:

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