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by scunnercampbell
Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:31 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Character encoding issue
Replies: 4
Views: 3615

Re: Character encoding issue

Try something like: set the htmlText of field "fieldname" to utfdecode( utfencode( yourTextVar, "UTF8" ) ) I think that worked for me, except on Android for some reason. Thanks...I tried that, but results in an empty field. Are those functions definitely available? I can't seem to find any docs on ...
by scunnercampbell
Wed Mar 20, 2013 4:13 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Character encoding issue
Replies: 4
Views: 3615

Character encoding issue

Hi. I'm having a problem trying to use HTMLtext to display HTML entities correctly in my LiveCode app. An example is the British pound sign, which is encoded in the XML file where LiveCode is reading in the data: E.g £3 is encoded in XML as...  3 But when displayed in LiveCode with HTMLtext, I ...
by scunnercampbell
Wed Mar 13, 2013 4:33 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: HTML table into LiveCode
Replies: 1
Views: 2210

HTML table into LiveCode

Hello. I'm wondering if it's possible to preserve HTML table markup when setting HTMLtext in LiveCode? I'm pulling in content to my app from a website and would like to preserve structural markup such as tabulated data. It doesn't appear that HTMLtext preserves this, so can anyone point me in the ri...