Re: convert to UTF-8

2007-06-25 Thread Mark Schonewille
Mark, You are right that uniencode converts all characters to double-byte, while UTF8 does so only where necessary. Using uniencode() only work with most, if not with all, unicode-compatible text editors though, until you start editing the text in the text editor and find out that the tex

Re: convert to UTF-8

2007-06-25 Thread Torbjörn Nordlindh
Mark Schonewille Wrote If the original string is plain text, you can use uniEncode(theString) uniEncode returns a double-byte unicode string, not UTF-8. That is the reason for my use of the encode/decode combination. I just wanted to be sure that I'm not doing something stupid, because tha

Re: convert to UTF-8

2007-06-25 Thread Mark Smith
Mark, is that really so? I thought the uniEncode function will convert all single-byte characters to double-byte characters - not UTF8. Is that not what happens? Best, Mark On 25 Jun 2007, at 11:11, Mark Schonewille wrote: If the original string is plain text, you can use uniEncode(theStr

Re: convert to UTF-8

2007-06-25 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Torbjörn, If the original string is plain text, you can use uniEncode(theString) Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http;//www.salery.com Quickly extract data from your HyperCard stacks with DIFfersifier. http:/

Re: convert to UTF-8

2007-06-25 Thread Mark Smith
Torbjörn, it's the only way, I think, but it seems to be quite efficient, in my experience - it's never been any kind of bottleneck... Best, Mark On 25 Jun 2007, at 08:34, Torbjörn Nordlindh wrote: I need to convert some text into UTF-8 This is the easiest way I have found so far: functio

convert to UTF-8

2007-06-25 Thread Torbjörn Nordlindh
I need to convert some text into UTF-8 This is the easiest way I have found so far: function utf8Encode theString return uniDecode(uniEncode(theString),"UTF8") end utf8Encode Is there any better way to do this? Torbjörn ___ use-revolution mailing