Returning to this topic...we are in the process of creating new stacks
in LC 7 while still running older LC 6 stacks with the same app. Stacks
have custom properties containing text created on a Mac, and my app uses
MacToISO() to display the text when running on Windows.
Some of the LC 6 stacks will be edited and saved in LC 7, others will
remain as LC 6 for a while. My app needs to know whether the character
set has already been converted so it can display text correctly. Is
there a way to tell in a script?
On 7/23/2015 7:38 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote:
LC 7 knows the difference between binary and text - this is retained
when saving custom props (if you save in 7+ format).
The only rub is that for existing stacks in the old format custom
props will be taken to be binary data (which auto converts to text
assuming the native encoding). Thus you will need to still do the
charset translation there for the props that are text. If you then
textdecode that and set the property to the result and save in lc7
format then it will then be treated as text in future (so no charset
translation is required in future).
Sent from my iPhone
On 22 Jul 2015, at 22:06, Dan Friedman <d...@clearvisiontech.com>
wrote:
Hello! Way back in LiveCode 5 and 6, custom properties were not
ported to the proper character set when you opened the stack on a
different platform (Mac --> Win or Win --> Mac). This was easily
solved by a simple macToISO() or ISOtoMac(). However, it appears
that LC 7.x is now doing this char mapping for custom properties on
it's own. Before I modify a mountain of code, can anyone confirm
that LC 7+ automatically maps custom properties to the proper char
set for the host platform?
Thanks! Dan _______________________________________________
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