Unicode

[Peter W A Wood]

Pete

LiveCode 7+ stores text data encoded according to UTF-16 so, as I understand, you will need to convert the UTF-8 encoded data using the textEncode function.

Regards

Peter


> On 26 Jan 2015, at 06:45, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there a lesson/guide anywhere that shows how to use unicode in LC 7?
> 
> All I need to do is SELECT data from an UTF8 encoded SQLite
> database/display it in fields/datagrid and read input from fields/
> INSERT/UPDATE it to the database.
> 
> I've got things working using unicodeText/uniencode/unidecode in LC 6.6 but
> wondering how things work in 7.  Or even if it's worthwhile even using LC 7
> for something as simple as this.
> 
> The LC7 release notes document all the new properties/commands but don't
> have any examples for straightforward use.  Am I right in thinking that I
> don't need to use unicodeText/uniencode/unidecode in LC7 to do the above
> tasks?  Just simple put into field/put field into var is all I need?
> 
> Pete
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