SHELL text encoding OS X?

[Peter W A Wood]

Hi Klaus

As I understand, the OS X shell assumes text is UTF-8 encoded whereas Livecode on OS X assumes text is MacRoman encoded. (I'm guessing you're running this on a Mac).

So you need to convert the UTF-8 to MacRoman. With LiveCode 6.6, I believe that involves converting first to "unicode" (actually UTF-16) and then to MacRoman. I took a quick look at Devin Asay's Unicode tutorial - http://livecode.byu.edu/unicode/unicodeInRev.php

It seems you need to do something like this, assuming you have a "spare" field hanging around:
	set the unicodetext of field "temp" to uniencode(tResultFromMDFind,"UTF8")
	get the unicodetext of field "temp"
	put unidecode(it,"English") into tWhatIWanted

I realise that the English seems a bit odd for German but I think it's a LiveCode synonym for what Unicode calls "Roman" languages.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Peter


On 26 Jul 2014, at 21:47, Klaus major-k <klaus at major-k.de> wrote:

> Hi Warren,
> 
> Am 26.07.2014 um 15:43 schrieb Warren Samples <warren at warrensweb.us>:
> 
>> On 07/26/2014 08:05 AM, Klaus major-k wrote:
>>> thank you, but my question was:
>>>>>>> Anyway, what can I do in LC 6.6.2?
>>> ;-)
>> You also wrote this:
> 
> Yes, "also"!
> 
>> "This even happens with LC 7dp7, but shouldn't right?"
>> so it seemed you might be interested in how it's supposed to work there.
> 
> OK, let's agree that I want to know both solutions, one for LC 7.x, thank you for that,
> and one solution for LC 6.6.2 :-)
> 
> 
> Best
> 
> Klaus
> 
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> 
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