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Hello,

This is not a very big problem as it's font-specific, but I was curious about what was causing it.

I have a text with accented characters in Verdana font in OpenOffice Writer, e.g.

afin d'être le plus confiant possible avant de passer le véritable entretien

When I paste it into livecode, I get

afin d'黎re le plus confiant possible avant de passer le v駻itable entretien

The htmlcode of the above with Chinese characters is

afin d'黎re le plus confiant possible avant de passer le v駻itable entretien

whereas it SHOULD be

afin d'être le plus confiant possible avant de passer le véritable entretien.

(which would yield the correct accents)

Why is LC misreading the characters? Is it another version of Verdana than the one LC uses? This doesn't happen e.g. with Tahoma or Times New Roman.

If I copy your original text from the browser and paste it into LiveCode, I get an incorrect result. However, if I type the text manually in LibreOffice and copy-paste it into LiveCode, it works fine. What is your exact set-up? (I still have to try OpenOffice on my new Mac).

Mark wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 04, 2018 9:11 pm

If I copy your original text from the browser and paste it into LiveCode, I get an incorrect result. However, if I type the text manually in LibreOffice and copy-paste it into LiveCode, it works fine. What is your exact set-up? (I still have to try OpenOffice on my new Mac).

Thanks, Mark.

Windows 10, Apache Open Office. Perhaps I will finally download/install LibreOffice now

First, I'm going to try a few filetype variants (e.g. .odt, .doc, .docx) to see what works and what doesn't.