Merge and unicode

[J. Landman Gay]

It's UTF8 text from a server, which I textDecode to UTF16. When I use 
the UTF16 text in a merge, diacriticals and/or curly quotes get mangled. 
(Same with setting metadata on field text too.)

On 9/9/19 4:16 PM, Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand.
> 
> Do you mean "encoded to UTF-16"? In that case you should decode that to convert it to internal text. And then try merge. (Which still might have problems, I suppose.)
> 
> 
>> On Sep 9, 2019, at 12:08 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> It seems that the merge command doesn't respect unicode. Does anyone have a workaround? The text I'm inserting is already decoded to UTF16.
>>
>> -- 
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> use-livecode mailing list
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:
>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> use-livecode mailing list
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
> 


-- 
Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com