Re: Writefile illegal characters ?

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2004

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 60597
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texte = Happy Christmas from Phil! wrote:> Your suggestion didnt work it just writes out a file labelled > "TéST.txt.txt"> > Is this a problem that can be corrected inside WebDNA? or an OS problem?I don't think that "corrected" is the correct term here; perhaps "extended" is better. WebDNA doesn't understand any extended ASCII characters in the [writefile] context and probably not for most other OS related contexts. For one thing because it is an incredibly difficult task, as it depends on the character set. For another thing, it would require consistent system library support over the multiple platforms that WebDNA currently supports (and I can guarantee that's not true). In an ideal world, WebDNA would have native Unicode support, but I wouldn't count on it (it's an incredible pain and even that wouldn't necessarily fix it the way you'd expect it to be fixed).As a fallback, write the file to disk with the HTML Character Entity Reference, then use a [shell] context to call a script which renames that file using whatever character translation you think will work.However, I have to twist the words of Inigo Montoya:"You keep trying to use extended ASCII characters. I don't think they mean what you think they mean..."John-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: Writefile illegal characters ? ( John Peacock 2004)
Re: Writefile illegal characters ? ( Happy Christmas from Phil! 2004)
Re: Writefile illegal characters ? ( Happy Christmas from Phil! 2004)
Re: Writefile illegal characters ? ( Kenneth Grome 2004)
Re: Writefile illegal characters ? ( John Peacock 2004)
Writefile illegal characters ? ( Happy Christmas from Phil! 2004)

Happy Christmas from Phil! wrote:> Your suggestion didnt work it just writes out a file labelled > "TéST.txt.txt"> > Is this a problem that can be corrected inside WebDNA? or an OS problem?I don't think that "corrected" is the correct term here; perhaps "extended" is better. WebDNA doesn't understand any extended ASCII characters in the [writefile] context and probably not for most other OS related contexts. For one thing because it is an incredibly difficult task, as it depends on the character set. For another thing, it would require consistent system library support over the multiple platforms that WebDNA currently supports (and I can guarantee that's not true). In an ideal world, WebDNA would have native Unicode support, but I wouldn't count on it (it's an incredible pain and even that wouldn't necessarily fix it the way you'd expect it to be fixed).As a fallback, write the file to disk with the HTML Character Entity Reference, then use a [shell] context to call a script which renames that file using whatever character translation you think will work.However, I have to twist the words of Inigo Montoya:"You keep trying to use extended ASCII characters. I don't think they mean what you think they mean..."John-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ John Peacock

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Re: Writefile illegal characters ?

2004

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