Mark, Many thanks for this help. I believe my challenge is that my encoded text is actually wrapped in html. For example, after setting the htmlText of a field, this:
<div><object type="text/html" data="passages/3167.htm"/></div><span class="class1"><b>Read the following line from the poem.<br/><br/></b></span><span class="class1"><span class="class1">You’ve <u>disturbed</u> a mighty river just by dropping in a stone.</span><br/><br/></span><span class="class1"><b>What does the Latin root <i>turbare</i> mean as used in the word <u>disturbed</u>?</b></span> produces this: Read the following line from the poem.You’ve disturbed a mighty river just by dropping in a stone.What does the Latin root turbare mean as used in the word disturbed? Can I operate on this entire chunk of html text or do I need to dig out pieces like "You’ve" and uniDecode them? Many thanks, Ray Horsley LinkIt! Software On Sep 11, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi Ray, > > Yes. To display UTF8, you need to convert it to UTF16 before setting the > unicodeText of a field. You can also convert the unicodeText of a field to > UTF8 before writing it to a file. The functions are > > -- convert from UTF8 to UTF16 > uniEncode(myUTF8,"UTF8") > > -- convert from UTF16 to UTF8 > uniDecode(myUTF16,"UTF8") > > To convert from plain text to UTF8 you can do this: > > uniDecode(uniEncode(myEnglish,"ANSI"),"UTF8") > > -- > Best regards, > > Mark Schonewille > > Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering > Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer > KvK: 50277553 > > Send me a friend request on Facebook if you like > https://www.facebook.com/marksch > > On 11 sep 2011, at 23:57, Ray Horsley wrote: > >> Hi all. Does Livecode have a way to handle UTF-8 encoding and decoding? >> >> Ray Horsley >> LinkIt! Software > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@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@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode