Merge and unicode

[J. Landman Gay]

On 9/10/19 1:47 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
> :)
> 1. Jacque is very confused too, but is afraid of big sticks.
> 2. Encoding should be identical throughout. I'm working with a large 
> text block, pulling out sections to create a list. All data is retrieved 
> from othe same variable, which is UTF16 native LC text.
> 3. The metadata is only set at the "paragraph" level, which I need 
> instead of "line" because there is a soft return in each entry.
> 4. I did try to textDecode the metadata, but since it was already 
> decoded in the source, decoding came out as garbage. I even tried 
> encoding it too, knowing it wouldn't work, and I was right.
> 
> Solution: urlEncode the metadata before merging, and urlDecode after 
> retrieval. When my example is urlEncoded it becomes a simple string:
> PP04_The+%D2Mystery%D3+of+Marriage

Blah. URLEncode/decode works fine on desktop (Mac) but on Android it 
fails. For some reason on Android I get this:
PP04_The%2B%253FMystery%253F%2Bof%2BMarriage

All tests are in LC 9.5 so there should be no difference, right?
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