Help converting Hex UTF-8 bytes to character

[Monte Goulding]

Hi Trevor

I’m pretty sure that the following will do what you want here:

textDecode(format(<file content>),”utf-8”)

Cheers

Monte

> On 1 Jun 2018, at 6:13 am, Trevor DeVore via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a text file that contains Hex UTF-8 bytes encode in the following
> manner:
> 
> ```
> \xC3\xB3
> ```
> 
> This particular sequence represents the following character:
> 
> ```
> ó
> ```
> 
> I need to read this file in, converting these hex bytes to the proper
> character. For example, the following string:
> 
> ```
> versi\xC3\xB3n HTML5
> ```
> 
> should be read in as:
> 
> ```
> versión HTML 5
> ```
> 
> Does anybody know how to use the C3 B3 hex values to generate the proper
> character?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Trevor DeVore
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