Re: Writefile illegal characters ?
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It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 60595
interpreted = N
texte = Thanks for thinking about this.... the problem emerged when writing out=20=individual VCF cards for a multinational company.You are right about character mapping. As I use BBEdit I always set=20Character set to Latin 1 on my Mac - as this is what WebDNA uses.Your suggestion didnt work it just writes out a file labelled=20"TéST.txt.txt"Is this a problem that can be corrected inside WebDNA? or an OS problem?YoursPhilip.On 22 Dec 2004, at 16:30, John Peacock wrote:>> [Writefile T=E9ST.txt]TEST[/Writefile]>> Just because the filesystem supports extended ASCII characters doesn't=20=> mean that all applications will (or even need to). In particular, the=20=> character you use above is not portable (since it depends on a=20> particular character mapping). If you typed that same %E9 on a=20> machine using a German or Russian character set (non-unicode I mean),=20=> it would be something completely different.>> You could try using a Character Entity Reference:>> [Writefile [UnURL]TéST.txt[/UnURL].txt]TEST[/Writefile]>> but I wouldn't expect that to work either. I18N (Internationalization)=20=> is perhaps the hardest thing to get right, apart from correctly=20> handling L10N (Localization)...>> John>> --=20> John Peacock> Director of Information Research and Technology> Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group> 4501 Forbes Boulevard> Suite H> Lanham, MD 20706> 301-459-3366 x.5010> fax 301-429-5748>> -------------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list
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Thanks for thinking about this.... the problem emerged when writing out=20=individual VCF cards for a multinational company.You are right about character mapping. As I use BBEdit I always set=20Character set to Latin 1 on my Mac - as this is what WebDNA uses.Your suggestion didnt work it just writes out a file labelled=20"TéST.txt.txt"Is this a problem that can be corrected inside WebDNA? or an OS problem?YoursPhilip.On 22 Dec 2004, at 16:30, John Peacock wrote:>> [Writefile T=E9ST.txt]TEST[/Writefile]>> Just because the filesystem supports extended ASCII characters doesn't=20=> mean that all applications will (or even need to). In particular, the=20=> character you use above is not portable (since it depends on a=20> particular character mapping). If you typed that same %E9 on a=20> machine using a German or Russian character set (non-unicode I mean),=20=> it would be something completely different.>> You could try using a Character Entity Reference:>> [Writefile [unurl]TéST.txt[/UnURL].txt]TEST[/Writefile]>> but I wouldn't expect that to work either. I18N (Internationalization)=20=> is perhaps the hardest thing to get right, apart from correctly=20> handling L10N (Localization)...>> John>> --=20> John Peacock> Director of Information Research and Technology> Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group> 4501 Forbes Boulevard> Suite H> Lanham, MD 20706> 301-459-3366 x.5010> fax 301-429-5748>> -------------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to=20> > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/>-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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