Setting the Unicode text of a field from JSON converted to array

[Peter W A Wood]

> On 10 Nov 2014, at 13:06, Brahmanathaswami <brahma at hindu.org> wrote:
> 
> i tried that already:
> 
> case "original_script"
>         set the unicodetext of field "lyrics" to uniencode(tContent, "utf8")
>         break
> 
> but still get garble
> 
> 
> ??
> 
> 
> 
> ?? 555
> 
>  555
> 
> ? 555
> [snip]

You need to process the JSON data before putting it into a string. As far as I know,LiveCode recognises “\u0ba9” as a string containing 6 characters. You need to process that to change it to the single character numToCodepoint(0x0ba9) or it’s preLiveCode 7 alternative. (The \, u, 0, b, a, and 9 will be UTF-8 encoded though.)


That is unless mergJSON “de-escapes" the JSON for you.

Regards

Peter