Writing to file in utf-8

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi jbv,

I suggested this, because I understand from you that you need UTF8 for the files and the database. If you don't need UTF8 for the database and files, then you might as well use the native encoding of your operating system.

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On 3 sep 2014, at 19:02, jbv at souslelogo.com wrote:

> Hell Trevor
> 
>> Why are you using unidecode?
> 
> I am using unidecode because
> 
> 1- in this LC lesson
> http://lessons.runrev.com/m/4071/l/20441-unicode
> 
> it says :
> The keys to using UTF-8 text in Livecode are the uniEncode() and
> uniDecode() functions. Let's say you've gotten some UTF-8 text from a web
> site and you want to display it in your Livecode stack. You store it in a
> file called myUniText.ut8. This is how you would read it in:
> 
> put url ("binfile:/path/to/file/myUniText.ut8") into tRawTxt
> set the unicodetext of fld "display" to uniencode(tRawTxt,"UTF8")
> 
> 2- Mark suggested to use that function in his 1st reply to my question...
> 
> Best
> jbv
> 
> 
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