Re: Supported characters

Ryan Dary wrote:
> I've noticed that some characters are not being retained between XML  
> and
> the control.  For instance, the copyright symbol gets converted to a
> copyright symbol plus some strange character.  I enter the copyright
> symbol on my Mac by pressing option-G.  Also, I copied and pasted some
> text into it that contained the "smart" quote character for single- 
> quote
> (the slightly bent apostrophe) and it gets converted to a strange 'i'
> character with an accent mark.
>
> Is there something I'm doing wrong?  I'm just taking the xml provided
> from one control and passing it to another control.
>
> I don't know if this helps, but I saw behavior like this when I  
> started
> using Memory blocks to walk character arrays.  I would use a memory
> block with the assumption that it would be faster than splitting a
> string into an array.  The problem is the interpretation of some
> characters.  Now, to make a character array I use:
>
> Dim stringArray() As String = Split("My String")
>
> And that will properly retain the non-ASCII characters.
>
> Has anyone else noticed this character support issue?

I don't see this either in cutting and pasting, saving out and
reading back in, or transfering between controls. Are you using
the latest beta?

What you are describing is a classic encoding problem. Somewhere
along the line the string has lost its encoding (which should be
UTF-8). When you put the string into a memory block and start
walking the data, you become responsible for handling multi-byte
characters which includes UTF-8. When you pull it out of the
memory block you are responsible that it has the right encoding.

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