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Hi. I'm having a problem trying to use HTMLtext to display HTML entities correctly in my LiveCode app. An example is the British pound sign, which is encoded in the XML file where LiveCode is reading in the data:
E.g £3 is encoded in XML as...
 3

But when displayed in LiveCode with HTMLtext, I get, the "not" symbol before the £:

£3

Another example is right closing quotes, encoded as ’ but displayed as Äô

Is there a way round this? A character encoding setting within LiveCode? The database where the content is stored, before being added to the XML file, has character encoding utf8.

Hi scunnercampbell,
I'm seeing the pound symbol as £ in HTML
  looks like nbsp?

Simon

Try something like:

set the htmlText of field "fieldname" to utfdecode( utfencode( yourTextVar, "UTF8" ) )

UGH: That's what I get for going my bad memory... uniDecode( uniEncode( yourTextVar, "UTF8" ) )

I had UTF on the brain.

I think that worked for me, except on Android for some reason.

n9yty wrote:Try something like:

set the htmlText of field "fieldname" to utfdecode( utfencode( yourTextVar, "UTF8" ) )

I think that worked for me, except on Android for some reason.

Thanks...I tried that, but results in an empty field. Are those functions definitely available? I can't seem to find any docs on them.

set the HTMLtext of fld "F_AttractionsDetail" to utfdecode( utfencode( gAttractionInfo, "UTF8" ) ) -- results in blank field
set the HTMLtext of fld "F_AttractionsDetail" to gAttractionInfo -- results in field populated but with same issues described in first post

Sorry, my bad, I fixed it above... uniEncode/uniDecode not utf... I had a UTF hangover apparently. LoL