AW: XML and Unicode

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

You could try:
put unidecode(uniencode(tContents,"UTF8"),"english") into tContents
where tContents is what you have read from your XML file.
Tiemo


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag
> von Pascal Lehner
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2013 14:54
> An: How to use LiveCode
> Betreff: XML and Unicode
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am working on small tool to convert a specific XML file into several html
> pages.
> The whole thing looks good and should be working fine eventually. However,
> there is one thing I did not figure out yet: Unicode.
> 
> My XML is partially french and has a lot of symbols like this:
>        <sitename>Personnes du monde rural aux 19ème et 20ème
> siècles</sitename>
> 
> however, when I read this file into Livecode and take it apart, I get stuff
> like this in my variables:
> 
>         Personnes du monde rural aux 19ème et 20ème siècles Can someone
> help me changin these symols back to their originals respecitvely I will
> need them in a html file in the end. I guess that's some Unicode issue but
> I am somehow lost when and how to best change the strings..
> 
> Thanks a lot :-)
> 
> Pascal
> 
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> Pascal Lehner
> 
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