Re: accents, graves & other funny charecters...

Rebbe via use-livecode Sent: 15 April 2017 18:23 To: How to use LiveCode Cc: Matthias Rebbe Subject: Re: accents, graves & other funny charecters... I´ve entered the following text Route Foresti√®re de la R√©serve, 50680 Cerisy-la-For√™t, France into Ultraedit and set the encoding to UTF

Re: accents, graves & other funny charecters...

Hi all, we solved it by replacing the last line with: ... ## put boo into fld 1 put textdecode(theAddress,"utf-8") into fld 1 end mouseup :-) > Am 15.04.2017 um 19:23 schrieb Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode > : > > I´ve entered the following text > > Route Foresti√®re de la R√©serve, 50

Re: accents, graves & other funny charecters...

I´ve entered the following text Route Foresti√®re de la R√©serve, 50680 Cerisy-la-For√™t, France into Ultraedit and set the encoding to UTF-8 i get this here Route Forestière de la Réserve, 50680 Cerisy-la-Forêt, France , which is the correct spelling then. It seems your text is in MacRoman

Re: accents, graves & other funny charecters...

Replacing the characters is too late, although it may be possible if you figure out every accented character’s alternate non-unicode variation. See this article for how to fix the text before you use it: http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/6930-how-do-i-use-utf-8-text-with-fields

accents, graves & other funny charecters...

I always struggle with , or I should say with how liveCode and unicode interact and how many times it changes about hoow to use it as always left me confused... Now, in fld "coord", I have ... 49.196839,-0.907385 I throw this at google and it returns the address... Route Forestière de la Rés