Hi all,
wonder if anyone can give me a hand with this.
I have a script running that copies text from an InDesign file and passes it to Safari as a form submission (it url-encodes the data and sends it to a web server). It appears to run fine except that the web server accepts UTF-8 and ISO 8859 1 characters and (I believe) the text being grabbed from InDesign is formatted in MacRoman or something else.
Is there an easy way or something I’m missing that will encode the text for ISO 8859 1?
This seems to work for UTF-8
This is the code I found online to url encode:
on urlencode(theText)
set theTextEnc to ""
repeat with eachChar in characters of theText
set useChar to eachChar
set eachCharNum to ASCII number of eachChar
if eachCharNum = 32 then
set useChar to "+"
else if (eachCharNum ≠42) and (eachCharNum ≠95) and (eachCharNum < 45 or eachCharNum > 46) and (eachCharNum < 48 or eachCharNum > 57) and (eachCharNum < 65 or eachCharNum > 90) and (eachCharNum < 97 or eachCharNum > 122) then
set firstDig to round (eachCharNum / 16) rounding down
set secondDig to eachCharNum mod 16
if firstDig > 9 then
set aNum to firstDig + 55
set firstDig to ASCII character aNum
end if
if secondDig > 9 then
set aNum to secondDig + 55
set secondDig to ASCII character aNum
end if
set numHex to ("%" & (firstDig as string) & (secondDig as string)) as string
set useChar to numHex
end if
set theTextEnc to theTextEnc & useChar as string
end repeat
return theTextEnc
end urlencode
If I manually set Safari to use UTF-8 it displays correctly, but Safari defaults to Latin 1 (ISO 8859 1) I think, and I can only imagine that all the Windows people who will be using the website will end up with wonky characters… ugh I’ve been fighting this for so long.