It sounds like something somewhere is changing that data to a native string before being textDecoded. Try putting in some logging of the value of 'tData is strictly a binary string' to find out where it is getting stringified.
On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 at 18:39, Tom Glod via use-livecode < [email protected]> wrote: > hey malte ..... the custom properties and array encoding changed with v7 > .... its safe to say that is the cause of any issues with character > encoding. ...i store binaries and strings in custom properties ..... so i > think internally it would make sense that its a binary. > > > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 5:39 PM, Malte Pfaff-Brill via use-livecode < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I am a little bit puzzled. a stack I started waaaaay back in engine 4.x > > always had a custom property set with multiple UTF8 encoded strings. > Those > > were transferred just fine from Mc to PC and the UTF8 strings remained > > intact. Somewhere down the road something seems to have changed. When I > now > > bring the stack from Mac to PC (engine V. 9, stable) all Umlauts are > turned > > into Question Marks after decoding. Image data also stored in cProps > > translates just fine though. > > > > I worked around this by base64Encoding the UTF8 stuff now, but somehow I > > think this should not be necessary, I mean, I chose UTF8 for a reason > over > > ISO Latin, right? > > > > So I wonder: what is data stored in cProps and what should it be? Is it > > binary (I think it should be)? Should the engine try to be helpful here > and > > change the character encoding depending on the platform (I think it > should > > not) > > > > A) Does this happen to anyone else? > > B) If this was to be reproducible also with plain vanilla stacks, what > > would be your expectations on behaviour? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Malte > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
