On Sep 4, 2009, at 3:01 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
Aloha, Joe:
I'm not quite sure how your suggestion relates to the problem of
endlines.
The unicode.txt file I have is being read OK in Pages on the mac.
It also loads just fine in Rev, with the exception of the line breaks
I'm not sure where the uniencode/unidecode could be used to solve
the line break issue.
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From the dictionary
set the useUnicode to true
Specifies whether the charToNum and numToChar functions assume a
character is double-byte.
Perhaps the issue for me is:
If you are using UTF-16, that means that every character is
represented as double-byte.
If you do a replacement using numtochar(13), it seems to me that the
'replace' scan of the string is only looking as single-bytes, unless
you set the useUnicode to true.
Some programs, like BBEdit, try to detect the encoding, but this does
not always work. I think the BOM is supposed to be the flag for the
encoding, but this is not always clear.
In BBEdit one of the File menu commands is "Reopen Using Encoding >"
with (6) choices..
Unicode(UTF-8)
Unicode(UTF-8, no BOM)
Unicode(UTF-16)
Unicode(UTF-16, no BOM)
Unicode(UTF-16, Little Endian)
Unicode(UTF-16, Little Endian, no BOM)
thus there must be some trial and error involved depending on the
source of the Unicode string.
I know this is confusing and I will be diving into the arena very soon.
(I will avoid any hint of a Mac arena pun because I don't want that
tune bouncing around in my head.)
Jim Ault
Las Vegas
On Sep 4, 2009, at 3:01 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
Aloha, Joe:
I'm not quite sure how your suggestion relates to the problem of
endlines.
The unicode.txt file I have is being read OK in Pages on the mac.
It also loads just fine in Rev, with the exception of the line breaks
I'm not sure where the uniencode/unidecode could be used to solve
the line break issue.
Joe F. wrote:
The trick is to use uniencode/unidecode for everything.
Three separate examples:
ask file "Name new file:" with "NewFile.xml"
put "binfile:" & it into theNewFileName
get the unicodetext of cd fld 1
put unidecode(it,"utf8") into url (theNewFileName)
------------------------------------------
set the unicodetext of cd fld 1 to uniencode(tMyUnicode,"utf8")
------------------------------------------
put URL (theFTPRequest) into theDownLoadedText
put uniencode(theDownLoadedText,"utf8") into theDownLoadedText
put unidecode(theDownLoadedText,"ANSI") into cd fld 1 of cd id 4630
On Sep 4, 2009, at 1:39 AM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
I have some UTF-16 unicode raw text. If I import this into Pages,
it displays the font correctly and also the line breaks between
paragraphs correctly
But if I use this function:
on mouseUp
answer file "Choose a unicode file to read in."
if it is empty then exit mouseUp
put "binfile:" & it into urlName
replace numtochar(13) with numtochar(10) in urlName
set the unicodeText of fld "display" to url urlName
end mouseUp
the line breaks are not appearing in the field in revolution.
Also if I try to analyze what chars are there, where the line
break should be, by selecting across a missing line break and then
use this test:
on mouseUp
set the useUnicode to true
if the selection is empty then
answer "No Selection" with "ok"
end if
put the selection into tUnicode
put tUnicode
repeat for each char x in tUnicode
put chartonum(x) & cr after tOutput end repeat
put tOutput # returns empty
end mouseUp
I get nothing in the msg box. If I switch from Tamil Inaimathi
(Mac unicode font) to Anjal Chittu unicode, The Tamil displays
correctly and now I can clearly see a two byte block
space+square-box-symbol (somewhat transparent) where the line
breaks should be. But it still returns empty on an empty to
determine what the bytes are....
How do we deal with/import correctly, line breaks in unicode text
in Revolution?
I plan to create an editing environment as a revlet for online
work... and unicode will be imported and exported freely for later
use in InDesign. Obviously CRLF (or whatever it is in Unicode)
needs to be preserved.
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