Extended ASCII Characters Showing Up Where Not Wanted...

[JOHN PATTEN]

Never mind…. 

I just downloaded LiveCode 7 and reopened project. The upside down questions marks are gone now. Coincidence, the weather, spirits…? :)

Thank you!

On Oct 23, 2014, at 2:50 PM, JOHN PATTEN <johnpatten at me.com> wrote:

> Hi All…
> 
> I have a list of names in a field.
> 
> John Doe
> Mary Jane
> etc. etc.
> 
> When I do: 
> 
> put word one of the selectedText into tFirstname
> put word two of the selectedText into tLastname
> 
> …and then try using the variables in an INSERT to SQL Lite it fails. It seems the put script above is inserting the extend ascii 168 character “¿” (upside down question mark). 
> 
> How do I clear those unwanted ascii characters out of my name variables? And why are they in there to begin with? It doesn’t seem like it should be just adding invisible characters to this process. I figured it out by adding the variable to a text editor and showing invisibles. Is this a bug?
> 
> 
> Thanks for any advice!
> 
> John Patten
> SUSD
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