HTML representation of 'less than or equal to' - not cross-platform?

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Graham,

Now I see it too. Even if I set the unicodeText of a field to 
numToChar(8804), the character appears as something completely different 
on Windows.

In pre-7 versions of LiveCode, this might be acceptable, because the 
text of a field is saved as MacRoman or Latin. However, in 7, it is 
saved as unicode. I didn't try this, but this should not happen in 7.

--
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On 10/31/2014 19:04, Graham Samuel wrote:
> Hi Mark
>
> Not to flog this to death, but what you did works for me too - you just set the htmlText of a field using a version of LC running on Windows. What didn’t work for me was setting the htmlText of the field using a Mac version of LC, saving the stack and then opening it on a PC with a PC version of LC - then the field had somehow changed. I will see if this applies in other versions of LC. What I did is repeatable but of course it may be something to do with my particular setup or versions of LC.
>
> Cheers
>
> Graham
>
>> On 31 Oct 2014, at 18:16, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Graham,
>>
>> Apparently, I misread the subject header of your e-mail. So, you have trouble with the less-than-or-equal-to and the greater-than-or-equal-to characters.
>>
>> BTW I think that these characters are in the MacRoman character set but not in the Latin-1 character set, which means that you can refer to them by their ASCII values on Mac, but not on Windows.
>>
>> I just tried this on Windows 8.1:
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>      set the htmlText of fld 1 to "<p>≥</p>"
>> end mouseUp
>>
>> and it works fine. I can also change ge to le and that works too. If I execute
>>
>> put the htmltext of fld 1
>>
>> in the message box, I get the expected values and not the numerical values you are seeing.
>>
>> I tried this in LC 6.6.2 on Windows 8.1. Perhaps it is a 6.6.5-specific bug.
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Mark Schonewille
>>
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>> On 10/31/2014 18:01, Graham Samuel wrote:
>>> Thanks Mark for the reply.
>>>
>>> No, ‘lt' is less than and ‘gt' is greater than: these symbols are readily available on both the Mac and PC character sets, so if the objective is simply to display the correct glyph, it doesn’t matter if one shows them as html or just a simple character. My issue is with 'less than or equal' (and in principle ‘greater than or equal’). These are represented on the regular Mac keyboard as option-comma and option-period, but these codes are not the same on the PC. Hence my need to use html, since these characters are part of the standard html repertoire.
>>>
>>> A possible (but not very probably IMHO) cause of the problem is that ‘le’ and ‘ge’ are not in the LC dictionary as recognised subset-html characters dealt with by LC: but in fact they do work, just not when switched from Mac to PC. Odd.
>>>
>>> Graham
>>>
>>
>>
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