Unicode woes

[Thomas McGrath III]

Thanks,

Got it. Of course all of this playing around caused my REV to crash....

Thanks

Tom

On May 6, 2005, at 11:56 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote:

> On May 6, 2005, at 8:28 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
>
>> Trevor,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply, are you saying that I can:
>> put field "unicodestuff" into gVariable
>>
>> and then:
>> set the unicodetext of field "field" to gVariable
>>
>> P.S. I am working with mixed fields that have both English and Asian 
>> languages in them.
>
> Almost.  The first line should be:
>
> put the unicodeText of fld "unicodeStuff" into gVariable
>
> then
>
> set the unicodeText of field "field" to gVariable
>
> Once you put unicodeText of a field into a variable then you can 
> assign it to the unicodeText of another field.  The variable just 
> holds the data that you put into it.  If you put the  text of a field 
> into gVariable (like in your first example above) and then try to 
> assign the unicodeText of another field to the variable will you get 
> junk in the field since it is the same as saying
>
> set the unicodeText of fld "field" to text of field "unicodeStuff"
>
> Just remember that it is the field that has different ways to access 
> the text in the field (text, htmlText, unicodeText, rtf).  Your 
> variable is just holding whatever you initially put into it.
>
>
> -- 
> Trevor DeVore
> Blue Mango Multimedia
> trevor at mangomultimedia.com
>
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