When htmlText goes wrong

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Sat Jan 4 16:19:32 EST 2014


On 04/01/14 22:49, stephen barncard wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Alejandro Tejada <capellan2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I just keep wondering, How many of these Unicode characters,
>> written as HTML, displays correctly inside a field?
>>>> http://unicode-table.com/en/
>>>>
> ​just as a goofy test, I set the htmltext of a LC field to the source code
> of that URL….no translation   except to make the text black and readable.
>
> It was not properly formatted for a field of course  (livecode doesn't do
> CSS and tables in the same way), but I saw a string of many properly
> displayed Unicode characters.​ It appeared as all banks were unique with
> all their parts.
>
> I'm sure there's a 'standard unicode test' somewhere.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12053107/test-a-string-if-its-unicode-which-utf-standard-is-and-get-its-length-in-bytes

Richmond.

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