[PD] textfile strangeness
timon
timon at sosolimited.com
Sat Oct 28 17:53:57 CEST 2006
THANK YOU!
I can generate and save my file from textedit (OSX) as UTF-8. Now it
loads like a dream, all characters in place.
Timon.
On 28 Oct 2006, at 15:24, Thomas Mayer wrote:
> timon wrote:
>> Hi, Im a bit confused by the texfile object. When I read from a
>> textfile, characters outside the ascii standard seems not to be
>> supported (replaced by the square). But I can write a textfile, or at
>> least send those characters outside of ascii standard to the text
>> object. And here is the strangeness, the written text file contains
>> totally messed up character maps (ç is placed as Á etc.). Any
>> reason for
>> this?
>
> This sounds like Pd is writing files as utf-8 while your editor uses
> some other character encoding like iso-8859-1.
>
> cu Thomas
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