UTF8 on LC server

Fri Jun 1 10:09:45 EDT 2018

Mark,

Success!  Greatly appreciate your walking me through this.

Have a great weekend.

Tim Selander
Tokyo, Japan

On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 7:15 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2018-06-01 12:53, Tim Selander via use-livecode wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Mark,
>>>
>>> Here is the script. The files I'm using are
>>> bamboobabies.com/getjapanesetext.lc, and the text it is getting is
>>> bamboobabies.com/news.txt.
>>>
>>> In the script, there are two lines reading the text file that I've
>>> taken turns commenting out....
>>>
>>> If you can give me any hints, it would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Tim Selander
>>>
>>>
>>> <?lc put header "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8" ?>
>>> <!DOCTYPE HTML>
>>> <html>
>>>      <head>
>>>          <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF8">
>>>          <title>workbench</title>
>>>      </head>
>>> <body>
>>>
>>> <?lc
>>> --This line loads readable japanese text, but putting char 500 to 550
>>> breaks beginning and ending kanji
>>> put url "http://bamboobabies.com/news.txt" into vText
>>>
>>> --When this line is used, none of the put text is readable
>>> --put textDecode(url "binfile:bamboobabies.com/news.txt", "utf-8") into
>>> vText
>>>
>>> put line 1 of vText
>>>
>>> put "<BR><BR><BR><BR>"
>>>
>>> put char 500 to 550 of vText
>>>   ?>
>>> </body>
>>> </html>
>>>
>>
>> Try this:
>>
>> <?lc set the outputTextEncoding to "utf-8" ?>
>> <?lc put header "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8" ?>
>> <!DOCTYPE HTML>
>> <html>
>>      <head>
>>          <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF8">
>>          <title>workbench</title>
>>      </head>
>> <body>
>> <?lc
>> --This line loads readable japanese text, but putting char 500 to 550
>> breaks beginning and ending kanji
>> put textDecode(url "http://bamboobabies.com/news.txt", "utf-8") into vText
>>
>> put line 1 of vText
>>
>> put "<BR><BR><BR><BR>"
>>
>> put char 500 to 550 of vText
>>   ?>
>> </body>
>> </html>
>>
>> The problem you are having is that your text-file is UTF-8, but the engine
>> doesn't know that - you need to explicit decode it into a LiveCode string
>> using textDecode. You can then manipulate it as chars etc. correctly with
>> Unicode. That solves the 'getting data into livecode in the form needed'
>> problem.
>>
>> The other side of the problem is the text encoding used when you do 'put'.
>> By default this is 'native' - by setting the outputTextEncoding at the
>> start, the engine will automatically encode any strings you 'put' with the
>> encoding specified.
>>
>> Hope this helps!
>>
>> Mark.
>>
>> --
>> Mark Waddingham ~ mark at livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
>> LiveCode: Everyone can create apps
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