Corrupt data

william humphrey bill at bluewatermaritime.com
Sat Apr 19 15:13:03 CDT 2014


I am accessing the database on the same machine as the LiveCode app.
The oddity is that it opens and views perfectly in vStudio with the
problem only occurring in the LiveCode app. It is something that
LiveCode does differently on Windows than on MacOS.

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Mikey <mikeythek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Now that I'm thinking about it, this might be an encoding issue.  If it is,
> some characters will be fine, and some will be garbage.  This CAN happen if
> your ascii characters fall in certain ranges, but it is more frequently a
> problem if the database was transmitted over the internet.
>
> Try this:
> 1) On the machine that is sending the database, encase it in a .zip file (or
> internet-safe compression algorithm of your choice)
> 2) Transmit
> 3) Decompress on target machine/vm
> 4) See what it looks like.
>
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