revXML and UTF8

[Paul Dupuis]

Look up textEncode and textDecode in the dictionary. Text from or to a 
file needs to be decoded or encoded since LC 7.


On 4/10/2023 4:07 AM, jbv via use-livecode wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have an xml file with lots of non-western characters
> (greek, arabic, japanese...). I need to convert these
> data into sql requests to insert into a DB.
> For each node, I need to pick only some attributes, so
> I wrote a script that :
> - opens the file as utf8
> - processes each node
> - writes a file as utf8 with the processed data.
>
> My problem is that all non-western characters appear as
> ???? in the final file.
> Should I use unidecode for each revXMLNodeContents ?
> What am I missing ?
>
> Thank you in advance.
> jbv
>
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