Elegant way to express constant UTF8 string in script?

Paul Dupuis paul at researchware.com
Mon Jun 30 11:51:30 EDT 2014


On 6/30/2014 11:17 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:
> Another approach is to use the htmlText property in conjunction with html
> entities.  Full lists of them are available on the web but apostrophe is
> ' and the copyright symbol is ©

Just a caution that LC (depending on engine version) does not support
all HTML entity names. For example, the entity • for a • is not
supported under LC 4.6.4, but is under LC 6.6.2 (and exactly what
version of LC started supporting it I haven't had the time to figure out)





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