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

[Peter Haworth]

I ran across the same problem with the ellipsis character.  I ended up
doing this:

if the platform is "MacOS" then
   put ISOToMac(numToChar(133)) into tEllipsis
else
   put numToChar(133) into tEllipsis
end if


Pete
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Paul Dupuis <paul at researchware.com> 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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