AW: AW: AW: Why do I still need MacToISO, when working with UTF-8?

2017-01-17 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode
;use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Cc: Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com> Betreff: Re: AW: AW: Why do I still need MacToISO, when working with UTF-8? On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 1:24 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > However, the 'endpoints'

Re: AW: AW: Why do I still need MacToISO, when working with UTF-8?

2017-01-17 Thread Kay C Lan via use-livecode
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 1:24 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: > > However, the 'endpoints' (i.e. where the developer can 'see' encoded text > output - e.g. when writing to a file, or encoding for a URL) had to remain > as before otherwise all existing

Re: AW: AW: Why do I still need MacToISO, when working with UTF-8?

2017-01-16 Thread Sébastien Nouat via use-livecode
e-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Mark Waddingham via use-livecode Gesendet: Montag, 16. Januar 2017 17:42 An: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Cc: Mark Waddingham <m...@livecode.com> Betreff: Re: AW: Why do I still need MacToISO, when working with UTF-8? Hi Tiemo,

Re: AW: AW: Why do I still need MacToISO, when working with UTF-8?

2017-01-16 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
Hi Tiemo, thank you for taking your time and clarifying. I wasn't aware that the internal format on a Mac client is MacRoman. I thought it would be a "neutral" UTF-8 format. Internally, the engine uses either MacRoman/ISO-Latin1 *or* UTF-16 depending on platform and what the string contains.

AW: AW: Why do I still need MacToISO, when working with UTF-8?

2017-01-16 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode
Im Auftrag von Mark Waddingham via use-livecode Gesendet: Montag, 16. Januar 2017 17:42 An: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Cc: Mark Waddingham <m...@livecode.com> Betreff: Re: AW: Why do I still need MacToISO, when working with UTF-8? Hi Tiemo, Okay so, I'm assum