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

[Graham Samuel]

I think I have just confirmed Mark’s conjecture about LC7 - I created a test stack on the Mac in LC7, put the html ‘less than or equal to’ character into a field there, saved it, reopened in LC7 and it still looked OK. So we can leave that particular problem behind us, at least once I’ve double-checked that it was a fair test.

My next problem will be to make sure any special treatment that I gave to the Mac-only characters (Mac Roman) like the pi symbol (which will still be there on the keyboard in spite of Unicode being recognised by LC) doesn’t adversely affect the PC version of the program. But it’s bedtime here and I strongly suspect I’ve stopped thinking straight. Tomorrow…(sings).

Graham


> On 31 Oct 2014, at 20:48, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
> 
> Sure, but if you have to correct a field using isoToMac and macToIso every time your stack opens, you might as well just replace the ASCII 16 value with ≤ in the HTML text of the field. I think Graham's point is that this shouldn't be necessary and I believe in 7 it should indeed no longer be necessary.
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> On 10/31/2014 20:03, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>> On 10/31/2014, 1:04 PM, Graham Samuel wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> That's what MacToISO and ISOtoMac were for. I'm not sure they still
>> apply in LC 7.0 though. But if you're running in 6.x you'll probably
>> need to use macToISO() on the text if the platform is a Windows machine.
>> Or, you could try storing the HTML as a custom property and re-setting
>> the htmlText on Windows; maybe that will map it correctly.
>> 
>> That said, if those particular characters aren't in the Windows
>> character set then I don't think anything will work to display them.
>> 
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