french accents and other funny letters...

Monte Goulding monte at sweattechnologies.com
Tue Jul 23 17:01:07 EDT 2013


On 24/07/2013, at 3:05 AM, John Dixon <dixonja at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> How do I handle letters with accents on the ipad ?... I am getting strange chars in the middle of strings of french addreses being returned, when getting 'google' to change long/lat to physical addresses ...

They are most likely utf8 encoded. You probably want something like:
set the unicodeText of field "address" to uniEncode(theAddress,"utf8") 

Cheers

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