Umlaut--Success!

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Devin,

This doesn't work for me (Mac OS X 10.4.8, Rev 2.7.8).

The # is replaced by n instead of n-umlaut.

Best,

Mark

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Op 1-mrt-2007, om 16:38 heeft Devin Asay het volgende geschreven:

> Signe,
>
> You can still do it without one of these methods. Let's take your  
> case as an example. Say you have a field "poundfield" that contains  
> your text with # for each n-umlaut. Now create another field, say  
> field "result", and set its textFont to a unicode font as in #1 of  
> my first post, below. Now create a button with the following script:
>
> on mouseUp
>   get fld "poundfld"
>   replace "#" with "nÃà" in it
>   set the unicodeText of fld "result" to uniencode(it,"UTF8")
> end mouseUp
>
> Barring any automatic Mac to PC character substitutions (by Rev or  
> by your mail client,) this should result in the #'s in your  
> poundfield being replaced by the character you want. If it doesn't  
> work as posted here, the three characters in the 'with' part of the  
> replace statement are ASCII-110 ASCII-204 ASCII-136. So you could  
> generate them reliably by doing this:
>
> on mouseUp
>   get fld "poundfld"
>   put numToChar(110) & numToChar(204) & numToChar(136) into tChars
>   replace "#" with tChars in it
>   set the unicodeText of fld "result" to uniencode(it,"UTF8")
> end mouseUp
>
> Hope this saves you from a kludge. ;-)
>
> Devin
>
> On Mar 1, 2007, at 1:38 AM, Signe Marie Sanne wrote: