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

[Peter W A Wood]

These are JSON escaped characters.  /r is the return (U+10) character. /n is the newline character (U+13). It would probably be easiest to replace them with the LiveCode return and linefeed characters.

Peter


> On 11 Nov 2014, at 13:49, Brahmanathaswami <brahma at hindu.org> wrote:
> 
> Can someone enlighten me on the
> 
> /r/n/r/n
> 
> that appear in the unicode string that is being delivered (by a PHP database access lib/api that we post to from this desktop app)
> 
> These are obviously two new lines, the break between verses of the song... but how do they mix and match with the unicode? Understood somehow as "low-level" unicode? If I unescape the whole string... (remove all the slashes) I think I need to leave this in... right?
> 
>> On 10 Nov 2014, at 10:26 pm, Peter W A Wood<peterwawood at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 
>>>> That is unless mergJSON “de-escapes" the JSON for you.
>> 
>> It should but Brahmanathaswami wasn't using it. mergJSON handles UTF8 though so there's no need to have all the escapes. The only char it doesn't like is null.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Monte
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