write special character

[mpusa]

Hi

I tried the new scritps for the first time.
I made a script that should add the character em-dash (hex 97) to the document. This is the line:

UltraEdit.activeDocument.write("—");

[Jaretin]

I tried this script and it works.

Code: Select all

UltraEdit.insertMode();
UltraEdit.hexOff;
UltraEdit.ueReOn();

UltraEdit.activeDocument.write("—");

[Mofi]

Have you installed latest hotfix v13.00+4?

By the way: If you modify a HTML file you should use the HTML entity as recommended by the HTML standard. If you use HTMLTidy to check your HTML code you will get a warning when simply inserting a — as character and not correctly encoded. The entity is —.

Read also carefully my post at script files can't be utf-8? and the pages referenced there.

[mpusa]

Hi

Actually the one line code also works, but the activeDocument obviously has to be UTF-8. I had it in ASCII.

Which is funny, because apparently you can not have the script file in unicode