Another scary bug??

[Bob Sneidar]

And now, even scarier, I copied the values out of the field I was testign with, and pasted the value into the code which uses hard coded values and THAT WORKS NOW when a second ago before I pasted the value, it did NOT work!!!

This is definitely an issue where the formatting of the text is coming into play. 

I submitted a bug report 18343. I attached a sample stack. I'd be interested if this is happening under 8.1 RC2. They may have fixed this and I don't know it yet. I'd also be interested if this is happening with Windows 8.0.1, but I have a real job here and have spent a LOT of time chasing this one. 

Bob S


> On Sep 7, 2016, at 14:45 , Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com> wrote:
> 
> Here's a nice little twist! This works if the arguements for itemOffset come from fields. it only breaks if you hard code them (or in my case pull the values from a database. I am willing to bet a nice steak dinner this is being caused by uniCode. The engine is probably expecting to search for unicode values and instead is finding UTF8 (or whatever it is). 
> 
> Bob S
> 
> 
>> On Sep 7, 2016, at 13:59 , Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks Panagiotis. I will submit a bug report to that effect. Unfortunately I need wholeMatches because contacttypes can be IT or SITES among other things and replacing IT in contacttypes will result in SE instead of SITE. I am working around it but this can bite someone in the arse hard if they are not carefule. 
>> 
>> Bob S
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sep 7, 2016, at 11:10 , panagiotis merakos <merakosp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> It looks like "set the wholeMatches to true" is the culprit. Removing this
>>> line results in the expected behavior.
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>> 
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