revBrowser's htmltext property for Unicode text

[Mike Bonner]

Nevermind, just tried it, doesn't work correctly. innerText doesn't work
either.

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Another option you could try is something like the following
>
> *-- uses javascript to place the body of the current page into the tText
> variable.    *
> *put revBrowserExecuteScript(sBrowserId,"result=document.body.innerHTML")
> into tText*
>
> and see if javascript sets the result correctly so you can use the text.
>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Mark Schonewille <
> m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Slava,
>>
>> This can happen when a website uses (binary) unicode text instead of html
>> encoded text. Externals can't pass binary data to the LiveCode engine. As a
>> result, LC gets incorrectly encoded text and text that cannot be decoded is
>> replaced with question marks.
>>
>> Sockets, however, can pass binary data. You could retrieve the data
>> directly using the put URL command.
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Mark Schonewille
>>
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>> On 3 jun 2011, at 07:11, Slava Paperno wrote:
>>
>> > When my revBrowser instance displays a UTF-8 Web page, and I look at the
>> > value returned by revBrowserGet(instanceID "htmltext"), I think all
>> > double-byte characters are replaced with question marks. I think the
>> same is
>> > true of the revBrowser "selected" property.
>> >
>> > Could someone please confirm? I don't know enough to be certain, and
>> this
>> > would make a difference in how I'll proceed with the project.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Slava
>> >
>> >
>> >
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