UTF8 coding

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3 total messages Started by Malcolm Wooden Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:37

#583

Author: Malcolm Wooden
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:37

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I am pasing the text in a ID document and returning the UTF8 code. This works fine except for the quotes, where I get a figure one returned instead of the quote. It's the same for opening or closing, single or double, they all return the figure one. Does anyone know why ID is doing this?
thanks

Re: UTF8 coding

#584

Author: jongware
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:14

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It's not a UTF8 code, but an InDesign Special Character. The same goes (presumably) for en-dash, soft hyphen, thin space -- which may have a Unicode definition -- but also for Next Page Marker, Section Marker, Odd Page Break, and other specific ID codes. See the Enumeration SpecialCharacters for all (?) values.

I think you have to examine the Characters array of your text one by one and determine if it contains a string or a SpecialCharacters enumerator value.

Re: UTF8 coding

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Author: Malcolm Wooden
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:34

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Thanks jomgware, you are spot on, there are a range of characters that return an enumerated value.

thanks

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