Problem with Latin 1 (I think)

[Ken Ray]

On Feb 6, 2012, at 6:21 AM, Ken Corey wrote

> As I understand it, you've got to get the text from UTF8 into the internal representation of a string.  Then, for the field to understand it and display it properly, you must put the string into the unicodeText of it.

Right - the hard part is figuring out that the text is actually UTF8 encoded <grin>. But assuming it is, something like:

   put unidecode(uniencode(theText,"utf8")) into theCleanText

should work...

Ken Ray
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