outputTextEncoding |
Type | property |
Dictionary | LCS |
Library | LiveCode Script |
Syntax | set the outputTextEncoding to <textEncoding>
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Summary | The outputTextEncoding property determines what text conversion to
perform when writing text strings to stdout.
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Introduced | 4.6.3 |
OS | mac, windows, linux |
Platforms | server |
Parameters | Name | Type | Description |
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textEncoding | | The type of text encoding to use. windows-1252, windows: use the Windows 'Latin-1' encoding (codepage 1252); this is the native text encoding for the Windows engine
macintosh, mac: use the MacRoman encoding; this is the native text encoding of the Mac engine
iso-8859-1, linux: use the ISO-8859-1 encoding; this is the native text encoding of the Linux engine
utf-8, utf8: use the UTF-8 encoding
native: use the native encoding for the platform the engine is running on; this is the default
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Example | set the outputTextEncoding to "utf8"
put the outputTextEncoding into tCurrentTextEncoding
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Description | Use the outputTextEncoding property to determines what text conversion
to perform when writing text strings to stdout.
outputTextEncoding is only available when running in CGI mode
(Server).
Note: The naming of the encodings here corresponds directly to the
IANA assigned charset names which is why they are perhaps slightly
different from text encoding naming elsewhere in the engine.
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