curlyquotes, character sets, livecode, and english

[Michael Mays]

Unicode is a character set. UTF-8 is an encoding. 

Is Unicode an encoding in LiveCard?

Michael

On May 27, 2013, at 6:17 AM, Dar Scott <dsc at swcp.com> wrote:

> I'm guessing that openoffice can do full UTF8, or at least the BMP (the main group of characters).  
> 
> Maybe the easiest thing is to allow full Unicode in your fields.  Then convert that to UTF8 and back for the db.  I think folks can help with that.
> 
> Embrace Unicode.  
> 
> An alternative is to tell the db what character set you are using and the same with openoffice.  
> 
> Dar
> 
> 
> On May 26, 2013, at 4:02 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hmm, to narrow this:  I just need something that livecode & postgres can
>>> agree upon.  With the proviso that people are likely to be pasting into my
>>> livecode fields
>>> 
>> 
>> Hmm, and it also needs to be something that openoffice can interpret when
>> it pulls from a db.
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
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