Character conversion in V4MD again

Alexey Starchikhin ssa at sevenrays.ru
Mon Nov 17 07:47:49 CST 2008


It wasn't apostrophe after all. All apostrophes in my document was
made by symbol 146 (right single quotation), and it's have a problem.
After replacing them with generic apostrothe (39) problem is solved.

Alexey


>I'm working on multilingual product, using Director MX 2004 and
>Valentina 3. First problem i encountered was conversion of special
>symbols in different languages from Valentina unicode to Director
>internal ASCII. Finally i've managed to get all languages working by
>manipulation with "ioEncoding" property (it's undocumented
>unfortunately).  Now for Russian strings i'm using pDbo.ioEncoding =
>"Windows-1251", and for other languages (German, French, Italian,
>Spanish) - pDbo.ioEncoding = "ISO-8859-1"  With this setting all
>special symbols are in place. All but few important exeptions.
>
>1)  "'" (Apostrophe) symbol is missing. It's exists in russian strings
>after reading info from the base with ioEncoding = "Windows-1251",
>but in all other languages with ioEncoding = "ISO-8859-1" this symbol
>disappears after reading, it exist in the base, but not exist in
>result string (replaced by  chr(26))
>
>2) … (three dots) symbol is missing too.
>
>I can just replace this last symbol with actual 3 dots to solve this,
>but apostropthe is critical.
>
>How can i get apostrophe working, can you help me?



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