Converted Character Set on Set Field

[amy_s]

We have been having an ongoing issue that we would love to resolve (V5) Sporadically when using the set field command in a script (setting text from one file to another) the text converts to a different character set, making the words unreadable. We have installed all the updaters to no avail.

Any assistance would be very much appreciated.

[Søren Dyhr]

Is this occuring when you copy and paste the original text snippets from say a browser or such?

As such is it usually seen as a benefit that the entries gets uniformed by the intervention of scripting. Your version is a bit too old to force a certian style to a fields data beyond the fields default fonts setting.

The way to deal with this is to syncronize the most likely font from the pasted with the field assigned.

A further crincle to your problem is that the old version of filemaker you use deals with UTF-8 while your operating system meanwhile might have switched to UTF-16:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

Are you sure your version of filemaker is supporting the OS you're on?

--sd

[amy_s]

Thanks for your input. No this isn't a copy and paste, but rather using the SET FIELD command in a script. May be we need to upgrade the version, but I would like a solution as it will be a complicated upgrade, so I'm not looking forward to that.

[Søren Dyhr]

Can you give an example on when it happens? Perhaps this tip will work for you?

http://filemakeraddict.blogspot.com/2008/01/tip-pasting-text-without-style.html

So a suggestion could be following:

Set Field [ Untitled::aContainer; Untitled::aField ]

Copy [ Untitled::aContainer ] [ Select ]

Paste [ Untitled::aField ] [ Select ]

--sd

[bruceR]

Thanks for your input. No this isn't a copy and paste, but rather using the SET FIELD command in a script. May be we need to upgrade the version, but I would like a solution as it will be a complicated upgrade, so I'm not looking forward to that.

Set field to what? Where is the source value coming from - another field? And what is the indexing of that field?