Handling Thai characters...

[paulsr]

Hi ... I'm trying, and failing, to display Thai characters in an app, and would much appreciate some guidance.

First I went to Google Translate so that I could create some Thai text. This I pasted into Wordpad and saved as "Unicode Text Document".

That seems to have worked because I can open the same document in OpenOffice Writer and I see the correct text. I did this in WindozeXP. If I open the file with TextEdit on a Mac, it also looks correct.

Then I tried to read that text into LC. My code looks like this:

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put "binfile:" & specialFolderpath("documents") & "/thai.txt" into tThai
put url tThai into tThaiText
set the unicodetext of fld "somefield" to uniencode(tThaiText,"UTF8")

What I see is a jumble of line drawing characters, musical notes, plus a few numbers. If I run the same app on a Mac, I see a string that looks like "5 L P 7"...etc.

Did I miss a step?

Many tkx...

--paul

[bangkok]

No need to uniencode your file because it is already in unicode.

So here is the script :

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put "binfile:" & specialFolderpath("documents") & "/thai.txt" into tThai
put url tThai into tThaiText
set the unicodetext of fld "somefield" to tThaiText

[paulsr]

No need to uniencode your file because it is already in unicode.

That makes sense. Many thanks...

--paul