Re: Where is André ? André says "goodbye"

[Paul Dupuis]

On 3/14/2020 3:58 AM, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode wrote:
> revXMLPutIntoNode idID, "/identity/name",  textEncode (field  "name_source" ,"UTF8") -- fld contains "André"
>
> When I write the XML file:
>
> put revXMLText (idID) into URL **myFile.xml**
>
> … I don’t find André any longer, but André

First, é is HTML for é which is correct, just encoded as an HTML 
character value.

If you code it as (below) with the textEncode to UTF8 removed

on mouseUp
   put 
revXMLCreateTree("<identity><name></name></identity>",false,true,false) 
into idID
   revXMLPutIntoNode idID, "/identity/name",  field  "name_source" -- 
fld contains "André"
   put revXMLText (idID) into URL 
("file:"&specialFolderPath("desktop")&slash&"myFile.xml")
end mouseUp

You just get Andr - the é is removed

on mouseUp
   put 
revXMLCreateTree("<identity><name></name></identity>",false,true,false) 
into idID
   revXMLPutIntoNode idID, "/identity/name",  field  "name_source" -- 
fld contains "André"
   put textEncode(revXMLText (idID),"UTF-8") into URL 
("file:"&specialFolderPath("desktop")&slash&"myFile.xml")
end mouseUp

You still just get Andr - the é is removed

I think revXMLText may convert all non-ASCII characters to HTML entities

Some of the rev* libraries are not fully Unicode aware, for example, for 
revZIP, I filed this confirmed bug: 
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22202

Either by design or as a bug, any accented characters (non-ASCII) you 
may have to deal with HTTML encodings for

And a search of the LiveCode Quality Center shows the exact bug you are 
running into is: https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18927