Elegant way to express constant UTF8 string in script?

[Mark Schonewille]

Keep in mind that HTML encoded text may not work for some higher-ASCII characters. That's exactly the reason why we have Unicode.

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Op 30 jun. 2014 om 19:31 heeft Ben Rubinstein <benr_mc at cogapp.com> het volgende geschreven:

> On 30/06/2014 16:18, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>> This is exactly what I've been dealing with for a week.  You need two steps : first check the platform and if it's Windows then run macToISO on the string.  After that your existing conversion to UTF8 should work.
> 
> Aha, good tip, thank you.
> 
> On reflection though I think I'm going to adopt a modified version of Peter's suggestion; use HTML entities in the 'constant' string to be unambiguous but readable, passing it through a function called "HTMLtoUTF8" so that bit of the script looks clean - and then do a nasty dirty implementation of that function, that just handles the two entities I currently care about and throws an error if invoked on anything else.
> 
> I'm all about the elegance, me.
> 
> thanks to all who responded,
> 
> Ben
> 
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