On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:59 AM, John Dixon <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have just had a thought... How would you go about handling accented > chars if you were put in the position of using a mySQL database, belonging > to someone else, that had never seen liveCode before ? > > Sorry, I should have made one other clarification as I was sort of supposing the data was stored in he db as utf8. It may not be. Someone may have created a program on Win and the data is stored in a db as CP1252. You are writing an LC program for use on Mac. All that has previously been said still applies, the only difference is that you need to determine what character set the db data is stored in and decode and encode to and from that particular char set. So whilst unicode and utf8 and utf16 is where everyone is headed toward, if the data is from an old db it may not necessarily be stored in unicode so you may have to do some experimenting, but at the end of the day you'll still have a requirement to 'encode in' and 'decode out'. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
