Un-American characters

[Signe Marie Sanne]

>Hi Wilhelm,
>
>>>...
>>>Custom properties can hold binary values ! and it would be not
>>>desirable to have these automatically converted by MC
>>>(isotomac/mactoiso)  [;-)]
>>>Therefore only text in fields and buttons etc. are handled
>>>automatically when transferring stacks to another platform.
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>
>>>Klaus Major
>
>>Thanks for the feedback to both of you. I took a second look at this
>>matter: Special national (un-American or un-English) characters in
>>custom properties are *not* preserved both ways, from Mac to Win and
>>from Win to Mac. This holds even for the *names* of the custom
>>properties.
>
>Oh, that's new to me...

I have worked with special national character for many years, and the 
days when I had to make conversion routines are long past. The data 
are stored as htmlText in a custom property without any problems on 
both Mac and Windows. Wilhelm, I shall send you a small stack with 
examples. You are, however, right about custom property names, if 
your stack is to be used on several platforms you should stay away 
from including spesial characters in the names.

>
>>If this is designed to allow custom properties to contain binary data,
>>as a matter of fact the names of the custom properties need not be
>>effected, because only the contents of the custom property would contain
>>the binary data.
>>I still have troubles to fully understand this feature of attaching
>>binary data. Could you or anybody else give a practical example for
>>attaching binary data to a custom property and why such data need to be
>>located at this place?
>
>...
>set the whatsoever of this stack to 
>url"binfile:C:/windoof/very_binary_file.bin"
>...
>
>Again too simple to be obvious ;-)
>
>Why ? This might be a philosophical issue :-)
>
>No, just think of storing files that have to be installed somewhere
>but have to be delivered in only one (1) file.
>
>>On the other hand, could the problem not be the solution??
>>If binary data can be transported safely and unchanged across platform
>>borders, why not store - Metacard internally - custom properties and
>>their names as binary data? This would increase Metacard and Revolution
>>platform transferibility.
>
>I cannot see what might be wrong with the current situation...
>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Wilhelm Sanke
>
>Regards
>
>
>Klaus Major
>k_major at os.surf2000.de
>
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