post unicode to website.

[Jellobus]

Hi all

How can the unicode text be posted on the website such as Twitter? alphabets can be posted as I expected but I had no luck with Korean or Japanese text. I am using LC 7 and my code is here,

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on mouseUp
   put field "koreanText" into pBody
   launch url "http://www.twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=" & urlEncode(pBody)
end mouseUp

Any good suggestions will be very appreciated.

Thanks for your time!

Louis

[richmond62]

I've never tried it; but how about using "set the htmlText"?

[Jellobus]

set the htmltext is not working.. I tried with

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put unicode field "koreanText" into pBody
launch url "http://www.twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=" & urlEncode(pBody)

but the result still shows "??????" on the webpage. is there any possible way to post foreign languages via the url launch command?

[richmond62]

I thought I'd "fool about with this" a bit . . .

Ktext.png (6.91 KiB) Viewed 5986 times

This is my stack containing some false Korean text (i.e. a series of random Korean characters).

I just had a go with this:

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on mouseUp
   put the unicodeText of field "koreanText" into pBody
launch url "http://www.twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=" & urlEncode(pBody)
end mouseUp

And got this:

Ktext2.png (5.33 KiB) Viewed 5986 times

Which looks like the text has been changed from double-byte chars into single-byte ones . . .

[richmond62]

Oddly enough this:

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on mouseUp
   put the unicodeText of field "koreanText" into pBody
launch url "http://www.twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=" & pBody
end mouseUp

Produces just the same result, so, in this situation the "urlEncode" is redundant.

[richmond62]

As Livecode does everything in UTF-16 this is probably
where the problem lies.

[richmond62]

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on mouseUp
put textEncode(field "koreanText","UTF-8") into pBody
launch url "http://www.twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=" & pBody
end mouseUp

Produces this:

Ktext4.png (4.86 KiB) Viewed 5981 times

And a Very Happy Christmas to all our readers

[richmond62]

Here's the stack:

Unicode-to-Tweet7legacy.livecode.zip

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[Jellobus]

richmond62> You rock! That's fantastic work! Thanks a million!