LC Server UT08 Encode Error

[Dar Scott Consulting]

Yes. A0 looks like the middle of a sequence of UTF-8 bytes for one character. Hitting that will cause an error.

I wonder why the db complained about CA and 59.  

> On Sep 13, 2019, at 4:10 PM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bob and Dar,
> 
> Thanks for getting back to me on this.
> 
> After going through the LC list archives,
> I came across a helpful tool called
> "Unicode Checker” that was originally
> suggested by Richmond Mathewson.
> (Thanks for that by the way.)
> 
> There is a nice little utility inside of it that
> allowed me to compare the string from
> Pages that I pasted to the the string that
> I had cleaned with BBEdit.  The only
> differences found was a 000A <control>
> and a few 00A0 (NO-BREAK SPACEs).
> 
> I suspect it is the control character really
> screwing things up. (I don’t know how
> it got into the string.)
> 
> I am not using the accept-charset attribute
> in the <form> statement.  If not specified
> it is supposed to use the default which I’m
> guessing is UTF-8.  I supposed I could try
> a test with the attribute specified to see if 
> it makes any difference.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rick
> 
> 
>> On Sep 13, 2019, at 5:36 PM, Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> When you Zap Gremlins, are you removing non-ASCII or converting to ASCII? Maybe you can do the same thing before saving to the db. 
>> 
>> Codes 0xca 0x59 do form an invalid UTF-8 sequence. They are good letters in both Latin-1 and CP1252, so I'm not getting a hint.
>> 
>> Wild, wild guess... Are you using an accept-charset attribute in <form>? Maybe fiddling with that will help.
>> 
> 
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