Dos Ascii to Windows Ansi or Mac Roman

[Devin Asay]

Actually, only the first 128 characters are reliably consistent. The upper 128 characters vary between DOS (Code Page 437) and "standard" encoding ISO-8859-1 (which, in turn, is slightly different from Windows CP 1252). The only built-in functions in LC are the MacToISO and ISOtoMac functions, so that won't help you here. You'll have to write your own function to replace upper-ascii characters. There is a handy comparison of the various common ascii character sets at <http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html>. Wikipedia entries for the various encodings can also be helpful, as they have complete character charts.

HTH

Devin


On Aug 6, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:

> The first 256 characters should be the same in both. Do you have characters that exceed the normal ASCII characters? 
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> Bob
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> On Aug 6, 2012, at 11:04 AM, Matthias Rebbe wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> i have here an ascii text, created under Dos, which i have to convert at least to windows ansi. Because i have to do this very often in future i wanted to create a routine with LiveCode which does the convert for me. Can this be done with a livecode command/function or do i have to create a script to replace the wrong displayed characters?


Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University