Encoding in Valentina 1.11

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 5/18/05 5:19 PM, "Bill Mounce" <billmounce at comcast.net> wrote:

Hi Bill,
 
> Yes, everything is being done on a Mac, the import file is set to
> MacRoman, encodings set to MacRoman, and I use convertEncoding when
> setting the value of a field. But when I try to save it to Valentina,
> or take it out of Valentina and write a text file, the encoding messes
> everything up.
> 
> I am sure it is an issue with Valentina because if I just read in a
> text file, process it, and write out a new text file, doing all the
> same things I am doing with Valentina except for saving it, everything
> works,
> 
> I set all the fields in Valentina to "ENGLISH". I assume this means to
> tell Valentina to use MacRoman (or something similar).
> 
> Any other suggestions?

I think you should convert to Roman when you WRITE to Valentina and when you
READ from it. I think you have forget convert after READ.

Btw, in 2.0 there is no need convert strings.
 
> BIll
> 
> P.S. Do you have the samples done for Valentina 2.0?

Yes, more than 50 examples

> I read through the documentation but there are enough differences that I
> wanted to see the single table example.


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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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