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Thank everyone. Bernd your solution works great!

visionmill

Hi I'm trying to import a tab delimited text file and extract the three columns. The first row contains the column headings. I can import the text fine but if there is a comma in the field livecode treats this as the end of the field. My data is set up as follows: Name Job Company David CEO abc Tim ...

visionmill

So it seems like Livecode uses UTF-16 as its basic format. This is what I had to use to get the function to work properly.

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function getUTF8fromUTF16 theText 
   return unidecode(uniencode(theText,"UTF16"),"UTF8")  
   end getUTF8fromUTF16

visionmill

Thanks Simon. That is simple! I'll give it a go tomorrow.

Jonathan

visionmill

Hi I've just started using livecode having not done anything like this before. I've created a few buttons which work as expected. For example one button when pressed will change the background colour. Press it again and the colour changes back to the original. What I would like is to create a new bu...

visionmill

Hi

I am looking to do exactly the same thing with CasparCG. Did you ever get a way of generating the UTF8 correctly?

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