Character Encoding

[richmond62]

So: I have 2 sample text files: one in Windows-1251 (Windows encoding for Cyrillic), and one in UTF8 . . .

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on mouseUp
   answer file "A text file"
   if it <> "" then
      put it into theFilePath
      put URL ("file:" & theFilePath) into MYCHEESE
      put textDecode(MYCHEESE, "UTF-8") into fld "f1"
   end if
   put the encoding of fld "f1" into fld "f2"
end mouseUp

Obviously correctly renders the second file . . .

This:

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on mouseUp
   answer file "A text file"
   if it <> "" then
      put it into theFilePath
      put URL ("file:" & theFilePath) into MYCHEESE
      put textDecode(MYCHEESE, "cp1251") into fld "f1"
   end if
   put the encoding of fld "f1" into fld "f2"
end mouseUp

Throws a bluey with the first file (unsurprisingly).

Does anyone know WHERE I can find a list of all the non-unicode character encodings that LiveCode can cope with?

[richmond62]

viewtopic.php?t=23613

https://livecode.com/livecode-7-0/

“ASCII”

“ISO-8859-1” (Linux only)

“MacRoman” (OSX only)

“Native” (ISO-8859-1 on Linux, MacRoman on OSX, CP1252 Windows)

“UTF-16”

“UTF-16BE”

“UTF-16LE”

“UTF-32”

“UTF-32BE”

“UTF-32LE”

“UTF-8”

“CP1252” (Windows only)

So in no way 'universal'.

[richmond62]

Presumably somewhere "in the undergrowth" of the IDE lurks code for performing these transforms, and presumably other transforms could be added.