HTML representation of 'less than or equal to' - not cross-platform?

[Mark Schonewille]

Paul,

This won't work because isoToMac/macToIso convert from MacRoman to 
Latin-1 or back, while Latin-1 simply doesn't have that char. You can't 
convert something if it doesn't exist.

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On 10/31/2014 20:03, Paul Dupuis wrote:
> On 10/31/2014 1:01 PM, Graham Samuel wrote:
>>   These are represented on the regular Mac keyboard as option-comma and option-period, but these codes are not the same on the PC. Hence my need to use html, since these characters are part of the standard html repertoire.
>
> See the isoToMac and macToIso functions in the dictionary. High ASCII
> characters (byte 128-255) differ between platforms. The htmText property
> of a field will not do a character conversion of these for you.
>
> Unfortunately, if your text contains high ASCII characters you need to
> know what platform it was generated on to use or convert via the
> functions above as needed.
>
> OR you need to encode any high ASCII characters in some platform
> independent format, like HTML Unicode characters such as &#nnnn;
>
>
>
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