Writing a UTF8 text file to server -- solved

[Tim Selander]

Just for posterity...

Tried many combinations of various commands.... opening the file 
as a binfile instead of a text file solved my problem

Changed:
open file vfile for utf8 text update

To:
open file vfile for binary update

At which point the same command:
write vdata to file vfile at end

properly saved the data as utf8/kanji to the file on the server.

All's well that ends well.

Tim Selander
Tokyo, Japan



On 2018.10.04 15:48, Tim Selander via use-livecode wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> Added info; I have <?lc put header "Content-Type: text/html;
> charset=UTF-8" ?> at the top of the web page source.
>
> Then, I only found outputTextEncoding in the dictionary. It said
> it only works with CGI (server), put when I put:
> set the outputTextEncoding to "utf-8"
>
> into the script before dealing with the $_POST array, it broke
> the Kanji on the web page itself.
>
> Googling turned up info on the textEncode function, but this
> script still results with a saved file of gibberish and not Kanji.
>
> Changed the script to this:
> put $_POST[firstname]      --(Results in Kanji name to web page)
> put "data.txt" into vfile
> open file vfile for utf8 text update
> put textEncode($_POST[firstname], "UTF-8") into vdata
> write vdata to file vfile at end
> close file vfile
>
> but still get a file with broken kanji.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>
> On 2018/10/04 15:08, scott--- via use-livecode wrote:
>> 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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