This would be valuable information for the rbdocs.com wiki, I believe. I wonder if someone would want to make a start on this topic there? ;)
On 2/11/06, Joseph J. Strout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:06 PM +0100 2/11/06, Thomas Tempelmann wrote: > > > > >BTW, in your posted code - since you use MidB - doesn't that > >> >create a nil encoded string? > >> > >> No, it returns a string with exactly the same encoding as the source. > > > >Ah, thanks. > > You're welcome. I should have pointed out the general principle: RB > never discards encoding information when it can avoid it. ChrB() > returns a nil-encoded string, for example, because it has no way to > guess what encoding is wanted (indeed, there's no reason to suppose > ChrB would be used for text at all). But LeftB, MidB, etc., are all > working on a string with some encoding; just because they're > measuring by bytes rather than by characters is no reason for them to > throw this information away. > > Stuffing a string into a MemoryBlock or file, though, does require > the encoding to be stripped, since there's simply no place to put it > (without changing what it means to write a string). So those are > cases where you may need to DefineEncoding when you get the string > back out. > > Anyway, I hope this helps set the expectation of how RB handles > encodings, so in the future you (all) can guess more accurately about > what's going on. (And of course, when unsure of your guess, one > would hope that you could go to the LR for any string function and > find an explicit statement about what the encoding of the resulting > string will be. That's probably not the case now, but maybe it will > be in the future.) > > Best, > - Joe > > -- > > Joseph J. Strout > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives of this list here: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > -- Thomas Tempelmann - exaggerating over a million times a day! http://www.tempel.org/rb/ -- The primary source of outdated REALbasic plugins and examples Skype: tempel.org AIM: superTempel _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
