Writing a UTF8 text file to server.

[scott at elementarysoftware.com]

Hello Tim,

Did you look at the textEncode function?

—
Scott Morrow

> On Oct 3, 2018, at 10:22 PM, Tim Selander via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I am using Livecode Server on Livecode's hosting plan.
> 
> Taking my first stab at a web response form. I am getting the data from $_POST fine, and when I simply do something like:
> put $_POST[firstname]
> 
> the UTF8/Kanji word shows up fine in the webpage. But I am unable to save the data to a file on the server encoded in UTF8 (simply trying to collect the submitted data).
> 
> put "data.txt" into vfile
> open file vfile for utf8 text update
> put $_POST[firstname] & comma & $_POST[lastname] & comma & $_POST[country] &  the time & return into vdata
> write vdata to file vfile at end
> close file vfile
> 
> Data is getting saved, but in gibberish, not in kanji/utf8.
> 
> Anyone see what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Tim Selander
> Tokyo, Japan
> 
> 
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