Where is the difference with Umlaute on Win versus Mac?

[Devin Asay]

On May 21, 2007, at 2:01 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am a little puzzled, but probably it's a Rev beginner question.
>
> I have text fields with german text, including Umlaute and "sz". On  
> Win (IDE
> and standalone) everything looks quite normal with Umlaute. But the
> standalone on a Mac doesn't shows the Umlaute and sz. It replaces  
> them with
> any special signs.  From Webdesign I know this topic and differences
> depending on setting the charset like e.g. charset=iso-8859-1. I know
> differences between browsers, etc. but where is the difference  
> between Win
> and Mac with showing Character Sets? Can I assign a charset to a  
> field or
> something like this? I didn't find anything.

Tiemo,
There are several ways to approach it. You are right that it is a  
character set issue. Check out the ISOtoMac and MacToISO functions in  
the dictionary. They will allow you to translate upper ASCII  
characters between ISO 8859 and MacRoman character sets.

You could also import UTF8 files into your stack, but this might be  
overkill for what you're doing.

Devin


Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University