Text encoding.

[Ben Rubinstein]

I always have to double check this as well. I think the point is that LC knows 
what its internal format is, but doesn't know what the source format is. So 
you always have to specify the 'external' format, but never the internal one.

With that in mind, it feels (at least in my language instincts) that if you're 
changing it out of the specified format, that's decoding; and vice versa. You 
have have to decode the text from UTF8 (or whatever) into the internal format; 
and encode it from the internal format into UTF8 (or whatever).

Ben

On 03/09/2021 03:55, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
> I made the same mistake at first. The concepts felt backward to me, it seemed 
> like we should encode text into the format we were aiming for. So If I wanted 
> UTF16 I should encode it that way. If I wanted UTF8 for outbound text I should 
> decode the UTF16 that LC uses.
> 
> When the receiving server scripts went haywire I finally figured it out, but 
> not before the Rails programmer wrote code to undo the gibberish I was sending.
> 
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
> On September 2, 2021 7:55:45 PM Alex Tweedly via use-livecode 
> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> i.e.I encoded it on the way in.
>>
>> It should have been
>>
>>    put textDecode(pStr, "UTF8") into pStr
>>
>> With that changed, my tiny test script works properly
> 
> 
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