Elegant way to express constant UTF8 string in script?

Peter Haworth pete at lcsql.com
Mon Jun 30 11:17:24 EDT 2014


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Ben Rubinstein <benr_mc at cogapp.com> wrote:

> So... what's the most elegant way to this (is there one)?  Is there any
> alternative to just looking up the UTF8 encodings and writing:
>
>   put format("This ice cream is \xC2\xA9 Ben and Jerry\xE2\x80\x99s Inc")
> into kMyConstantString
>

Another approach is to use the htmlText property in conjunction with html
entities.  Full lists of them are available on the web but apostrophe is
' and the copyright symbol is ©

Pete
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