Does JavaScript have a way to do the translation? Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 14, 2017, at 5:26 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > I'm dealing with non-English languages, and JSON data retrieved from a > database comes in with unicode escape sequences like this: Eduardo > Ba\u00f1uls. > > I need to translate those. I can do it by replacing the "\u" with "0x" and > then using numToCodepoint() to get the UTF16 character. But there could be > many of these in the same string, so I'm looking for a one-shot command that > might just do them all. I don't think we have one. > > The alternative is to loop through all the text, getting an offset for each > "\u" and then calculating the number of characters after that to use with > numToCodepoint(). But will it always be 4 characters in any language? > > Or is there an easier way? > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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
