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Hi,

For some reason I have to delete the first char at the beginning of my last item in order for the following to work:

if the hilitedLine is not empty then

put the hilitedLine of me into tHiLiteNum
put last item of line tHiLiteNum of me into tuDestCardIDNumber
delete char 1 in tuDestCardIDNumber
put uniDecode(tDestCardIDNumber) into taDestCardIDNumber
go to card id taDestCardIDNumber
end if

where tu = temp unicode variable, and ta = temp ansi variable

Can anyone explain why I have to delete the char 1? When I generate the field data, I put:

dataA(which is already in UTF16) & UniEncode(comma & space) & dataB

It seems odd to me that I just delete one character rather than 2 and it seems even more odd that a char would need to be deleted at all.

LarryH

Hi Larry,

You can't use chunks with Unicode. You're just lucky that you get something that looks like Unicode after deleting the preceding NULL character and using unidecode.

I do use chunks, sometimes, but before I do so I replace the unicode equivalent of the chunk delimiter by its plain text equivalent and use that to get chunks. Afterwards, I convert the plain text delimiters back into unicode, if necessary. This doesn't always work, so I do a lot of testing if I try this.

Best,

Mark

I think revolution needs to support UTF8 without conversion. This would make life SO MUCH easier. I'll add it in enhancement requests. I use UTF8 constantly for multilingual material.

Thanks for the tip!

Larry