To quote from the LC Documentation:
"Use the macToISO function to translate data that was created on a Mac
OS system to the Windows Latin 1 character set used on Unix and Windows
systems."
and . . .
"Use the ISOToMac function to translate data that was created on a Unix
or Windows system to the Mac OS character set."
All jolly clever and so on; but, ultimately, if we are to go completely,
100% Unicode, rather useless.
These 2 functions switch back and forth between 2 non-Unicode char mappings.
What is needed, surely, is a VAST series of parsers that will convert
all the myriad of non-Unicode mappings to Unicode.
At the risk of being boring I would refer you to this again:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php
As Livecode is put together with C++ I would also like to refer you to this:
http://site.icu-project.org/
Which, if I understand things correctly, can "Convert text data to or
from Unicode and nearly any other character set or encoding."
I wonder if that can be rolled into Livecode?
Richmond.
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