representing this character from a pdf

Bob Sneidar bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com
Thu Feb 8 16:06:32 EST 2018


put the clipboardData ["htmltext"] & cr & cr & the clipboardData["rtftext"] produces:

<p><font face="Wingdings" size="10"></font>�</p>

{\rtf1\mac {\fonttbl{\f0\fnil \fcharset77 Wingdings;}{\f1\fnil \fcharset77 (Message);}}
{\colortbl;\red0\green0\blue0;}
\pard \f0 \fs20 \cf1 \u61672?\f1 \fs22 \'00
}



> On Feb 8, 2018, at 12:01 , Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com> wrote:
> 
> I have checked this every which way. I converted the PDF to Word. Word says it's the wingdings font. LC tells me it is ascii 63. Either LC is lying, or else this character is getting converted somhow. 
> 
> Bob S
> 
> 
>> On Feb 8, 2018, at 11:49 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> This is quite odd. On my Mac, when I type a question mark with the WingDings font in Word I do NOT get a forward error I get something completely unrelated. If I copy it, then in the LC message box I enter put charToNum(the clipboarddata["text"]) I get 63, which is the character for question mark!!! What the...
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>> Bob S
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