Re: "é" on Mac becomes "Ž" on Windows

[Dar Scott]

LOL!  I almost didn't see it.  

I look forward to full "unicodification" of LiveCode and these things might go away.

Dar

On Jul 14, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:

> Hi AndrŽ,
> 
> Convert your custom property with the MacToIso function before displaying the text (only in Windows of course).
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> On 7/14/2013 20:44, André Bisseret wrote:
>> Bonjour,
>> 
>> In an app, I just finish to build on Mac (at least I was hoping so!) I have fields (lockText false) where special characters (in fact #) have an imageSource.
>> (a small image showing the 3 letters "Doc"
>> 
>> The images used to set the imageSource of # are invisible. Each one has a custom property (the "docName") which contains the name of a specific document.
>> 
>> When double clicking on such a character (on selectionChanged) the filename of this document is built and the document is launched.
>> 
>> On Mac that's working very well.
>> But I have also to build a standalone for Windows.
>> 
>> On Windows, the documents are not launched.
>> I just discovered that, if there is an accented character in the contents of the custom property it is replaced with another bizarre one ;-((
>> for example instead of "é" I find "Ž"
>> so that, of course, the document can't be found and launched!
>> 
>> Any idea how I could get rid of this?
>> 
>> Thanks a lot in advance for any advice and help
>> 
>> Best regards
>> André
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