XML and Unicode

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Pascal,

Read the data as binary and convert it.

put url "binfile:folder/file.xml" into myData
put uniDecode(uniEncode(myData,"UTF8")) into myData

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On 13 jun 2013, at 14:54, Pascal Lehner wrote:

> 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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