outputting unicode text fields to unicode text files

[rand valentine]

Hi, all. I'm stymied in my efforts to save a field of Unicode text to a text
file. I'm working with Windows (7) and the latest version of Livecode.

 

The field has Unicode text in it which which I can readily copy and paste
into Word and Wordpad and preserve all of the Unicode characters. But if I
try to save it to a binfile I simply cannot get the correct text.

 

If I code

 

put the unicodeText of fld "x" into url theFile

 

it seems to not recognize that the fld is already Unicode text, and outputs
each character with a space after it as if it has tried to create Unicode
text from simple text. So the file is garbage.

 

But if I code

 

put fld "x" into url theFile

 

I also don't get the Unicode characters rendering correctly in a textfile.
What alternative is there to output this Unicode text to a Unicode text
file? Thanks.

 

rand valentine

university of wisconsin-madison