encoding woes!?

Tue Oct 29 13:24:31 EDT 2019

Hi all,

macOS 10.14.6, LC 9.5

I have a file created with BBEdit with this content:
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<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>-</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>äÄüÜöÖßßß</p>
</body></html>
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Then I set the url of a browser widget to that file.
All fine so far...

Now I want to add some more text with umlauts to that file:
...
put the htmltext of widget "browser" into tText
## Looks exactly like the above in the debugger!

put "<p>ööääüü</p>" & CR before line -1 of tText
## Last line is the footer -> </body></html>
## And when I set the HTMLtext of widget "browser" to tText, all is fine, too
set the htmltext of widget "browser" to tText

## Then I do:
put textencode(tTExt,"UTF8") into url("file:" & specialfolderpath("desktop") & "/test.html")
...

When I now load that file into the widget:
...
set the url of widget "browser" to (specialfolderpath("desktop") & "/test.html")
...
Umlauts are gone like -> √§√Ñ√º√ú√∂√ñ√ü√ü√ü or worse

If I paste the same content (of tText copied from LC) in BBEdit and save the file it looks great
in the browser widget and Safari.

What am I missing or doing wrong?
Clueless... :-/

Thanks a lot in advance!

Best

Klaus
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Klaus Major
https://www.major-k.de
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