Mac/WIndows ASCII characters

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Pete,

Either use isoToMac(numToChar(182)) or numToChar(166). The isoToMac and macToIso functions apply to all ASCII character above 128 and not only if store on one platform and displayed on another. If you use the Latin-1 character table on Mac, like you're doing now, you'll always need the isoToMac function to convert the characters to MacRoman.

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On 17 aug 2013, at 03:43, Peter Haworth wrote:

> I'm displaying data from a custom property in a scrolling list field.
> Before I put the data into the field, I replace return chars in it  with
> numToChar(182) - the paragraph symbol.  This works fine on Windows but on a
> Mac I get  a completely different character - an O with some sort of accent
> over it.
> 
> I'm aware of the ISOToMac/MacToISO functions but I thought those were only
> for ascii chars > 128 that were stored on Windows then displayed on Mac or
> vice versa.  In this case, I'm just replacing the return character before
> loading it into the field, not changing it in the custom property.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Pete
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