TSNet hanging
J. Landman Gay
jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sat May 11 22:56:14 EDT 2019
It might be related somehow, but my troublesome file is available. The same
url in a browser (Firefox) loads it okay.
But the hang and freeze sound similar.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On May 11, 2019 6:47:40 PM Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> I have got a 'associated' error with the browser in Android.
>
> If a web page in not available it will provide an ugly error message on android
> (I get the text tomorrow) and the UI is frozen. I don't know. They could be
> related...
>
> BR
>
> On 5/10/19, 11:14 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay via
> use-livecode" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/10/19 3:04 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
> > I have one particular file downloading from a server that hangs TSNet
> > and freezes the IDE. It hangs on mobile too. In both, it requires a
> > force-quit to get out. A similar file from another set loads without
> > issues.
> >
> > The files are saved in UTF8 with Mac carriage returns. They are not
> > compressed. I textDecode them and replace the returns with LF. The file
> > that fails has some weird characters that don't translate correctly
> > using textDecode(<chars>,"UTF8"). Firefox has no problem getting the
> > file and displaying it as text, but does show the strange characters.
> > The same file opened in BBEdit doesn't have a problem, the characters
> > are translated as curly quotes.
> >
> > I don't know if these will come through on the list, but here are examples:
> >
> > interlude. -- beginning and ending curly quotes
> > name -- single curly quote
> >
> > Would these hang a download? It's the only difference I can find between
> > the one that works (no quotes at all) and this one.
> >
> > BTW, after textDecoding, LC throws an errors for codepointToNum on the
> > second example ("error in expression"), and says the curly quotes in the
> > first example are either 0 or 1770 (an Arabic glyph.)
> >
> > I'll ask the client to upload a zip file and see if that will download,
> > but I don't think LC will translate the characters correctly anyway. If
> > it helps, the original files were exported from FileMaker.
> >
>
> Update: the error is because there are actually three codepoints. When I
> decode them individually I get what came through on the list:
>
> 226 - 8364 - 339
> Latin Small Letter A With Circumflex - Euro Sign - Latin Small Ligature Oe
>
> Which still isn't a curly quote.
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>
>
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