french accents and other funny letters...

[John Dixon]

Monte...

Thank you...

   put approxAddress(coord) into temp
   set the unicodeText of fld "latlong" of card "theworks" to uniEncode(temp,"utf8") 

That was right on the nose... I would be too embarrassed to say how long I have spent not getting that correct...:-)

go gently...

> From: monte at sweattechnologies.com
> Subject: Re: french accents and other funny letters...
> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 07:01:07 +1000
> To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
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> 
> 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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> Monte Goulding
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