Data in Custom properties

Ali Lloyd ali.lloyd at livecode.com
Fri Jun 22 14:59:32 EDT 2018


It sounds like something somewhere is changing that data to a native string
before being textDecoded. Try putting in some logging of the value of
'tData is strictly a binary string' to find out where it is getting
stringified.

On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 at 18:39, Tom Glod via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> hey malte ..... the custom properties and array encoding changed with v7
> .... its safe to say that is the cause of any issues with character
> encoding. ...i store binaries and strings in custom properties ..... so i
> think internally it would make sense that its a binary.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 5:39 PM, Malte Pfaff-Brill via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am a little bit puzzled. a stack I started waaaaay back in engine 4.x
> > always had a custom property set with multiple UTF8 encoded strings.
> Those
> > were transferred just fine from Mc to PC and the UTF8 strings remained
> > intact. Somewhere down the road something seems to have changed. When I
> now
> > bring the stack from Mac to PC (engine V. 9, stable) all Umlauts are
> turned
> > into Question Marks after decoding. Image data also stored in cProps
> > translates just fine though.
> >
> > I worked around this by base64Encoding the UTF8 stuff now, but somehow I
> > think this should not be necessary, I mean, I chose UTF8 for a reason
> over
> > ISO Latin, right?
> >
> > So I wonder: what is data stored in cProps and what should it be? Is it
> > binary (I think it should be)? Should the engine try to be helpful here
> and
> > change the character encoding depending on the platform (I think it
> should
> > not)
> >
> > A) Does this happen to anyone else?
> > B) If this was to be reproducible also with plain vanilla stacks, what
> > would be your expectations on behaviour?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Malte
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