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Subject: Thanks and encodings. Was: Fantastic speed...
From: Boris Segerstahl <seger at sun3 dot oulu dot fi>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:20:04 +0200
Many, many thanks to you, Kevin, and Joe. It is always a relief to notice that my ignorance does not lead to rejection. Now I have a lot to do in order to feel sure with encodings.
I used to do (ever since my Hypercard days) things like:

str = "The Russian character " + chstj + " sounds like the beginning sound of 'shit' using East London dialect."

with a method chstj returning chr(173) as string. With a very old hacked font named Kharkov I could use low ASCII showing latin and high ASCII showing cyrillic.

Now I have to (and want to) unlearn all that and start with the fundamentals, so that both theory and implementation are based on state of the art implementations and principles. I would still be grateful if someone can point me in the direction of articles and books where I could learn more about encodings and all the rest of it.

Boris


On Tuesday, Feb 25, 2003, at 02:54 Europe/Helsinki, Kevin Ballard wrote:

Read Joe's response, then try:

Encodings.MacRoman.Chr(140)

On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 03:09  PM, Boris Segerstahl wrote:

In 4.5.3 I get identical results with
        msgbox  "alpha" + "å"
and  msgbox "alpha" + chr(140)

In RB5 the second msgbox does not show anything. If I only try "msgbox chr(140)" I see the character. I have not seen any information on how to handle the new complexity in concatenation (if the above is not a bug?).

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