Getting Kanji from a .csv file

[Dar Scott]

Oh, TextEdit cheats.  Did this come from TextEdit?  It puts some info in the resource fork.  That is lost when you write back out.

I'll ponder this.  Or maybe some OS X resource experts might know.

Dar

On Jun 7, 2013, at 5:21 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote:

>> I don't know what characters the field might throw away.  So, putting the
>> file into the field and then modifying the field seems scary to me.  Maybe
>> all the data is there, but maybe not.
>> 
> 
> The actual command I used was <set the unicodetext of fld "ProcessedFile"
> to uniencode(fld  "ProcessedFile, "UTF8")> (extraneous "the" in my first
> example)
> 
> I had no problems with this. In fact, it processed a file with about
> 300,000 lines in just a few seconds.
> 
> And then save the field much like this:
>> 
>> put uniDecode( the unicodeText of field "Processed File", "UTF8" ) into
>> URL ("file:"&kFile2)
>> 
> 
> I tried some variations of this but was not able to save the file from
> within LC and still have the Kanji viewable in TextEdit. I guess you didn't
> read the part about teaching to the imbecile because the rest of your
> explanation was way over my head.
> 
> But thanks for trying.
> 
> I would still like to find a way to do this from within LC.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Howard Bornstein
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