At 10:46 AM -0800 3/20/03, Dennis Birch wrote:
At 10:33 AM -0800 3/20/03, Joseph J. Strout wrote:
Usually, not at all. However, when you receive text data from some
outside source, such as a database or file, you need to let
REALbasic know what encoding that text is in.
Since many of us are dealing with data saved to disk, "Usually, not
at all" seems rather misleading. "In some cases you don't" might be
much closer to the reality most of us are facing.
That surprises me. In any app, I would expect the strings internal
to the app (string literals, control/window properties, EditField
contents, etc.) to vastly outnumber the strings created from a file.
But anyway, we'll be adding a new feature soon to take care of most
cases of reading from a file, too.
Also, don't you need to be concerned with text encodings when you're
dealing with data a user enters in your application, as well as when
you save it to disk?
No. How could the user enter data into your app without RB knowing
what the encoding is?
Best,
- Joe
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