Writing to file in utf-8

[jbv at souslelogo.com]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your reply, and sorry for the missing information.

I am on Mac OSX with LC 6.5.2. But a solution that works on different
platforms would be nice.

As I said, the contents of variable it come from files, which I assume are
in utf-8 (when I open them in BBedit or TextWrangler, it says UTF-8,
presumably MacRoman encoded XML files with some UTF8 encoded strings).

I don't use fields; the whole thing goes as follows :
file 1 -> var 1 -> processing -> var 2 -> file 2

In var 2 and file 2 I need to get a list of mySQL INSERT commands to be
executed on a server to fill a DB in utf-8.

When I follow your advice, in text file "file 2" the char "é" (for
instance) is
replaced by "é" (AFAIR this is the utf8 encodeing for "é"), and apparently
the file is in utf-8.

The only thing I wonder is : if I insert such strings into a DB, will they
display
the "é" as "é" in web pages with an utf-8 charset...

Best,
JB


> Hi Jbv,
>
> Lots of information is missing. First of all, which version of LiveCode
> are you using? There are quite a few differences between 5, 6 and 7.
>
> You provide one line of syntax, but it isn't clear where the contents of
> the it variable comes from, e.g. from a file or a field.
>
> It isn't clear if the files are 100% UTF8 or e.g. are they Latin1 or
> MacRoman encoded XML files with some UTF8 encoded strings? (Not very
> likely to happen, but perhaps something similar is going on).
>
> Generally, if you import a UTF8 file into a field, you do this:
>
> put url ("binfile:" & myUrl) into myData
> put uniEncode(myData,"UTF8") into myData
> set the unicodeText of fld 1 to myData
>
> and to export you use
>
> put the unicodeText of fld 1 into myData
> put uniDecode(myData,"UTF8") into myData
> put myData into url ("binfile:" & myUrl)
>
> This should work with all versions, although LiveCode 7 will have
> different ways to work with unicode text.
>
> --
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>
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> On 9/3/2014 13:28, jbv at souslelogo.com wrote:
>> Hi list
>>
>> I have a script that accumulates successive strings into a file.
>> Each string comes from utf-8 text files and contains french
>> characters with accents like "é à ô".
>> After processing in the script, those strings get accumulated
>> in other txt files. I need these second serie of files to be in
>> utf-8 format too.
>> So I use the following code (found in this LC lesson :
>> http://lessons.runrev.com/m/4071/l/20441-unicode )
>>
>> put (unidecode(it,"utf8") & return) after url tPath
>>
>> but when I open the file tPath in a text editor, everything is
>> replaced by chinese chars...
>>
>> What am I missing ?
>> Thanks in advance.
>> jbv
>
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