charSet

Type

property

Summary

Indicates whether the Macintosh or ISO 8859 character set was used to enter a stack's text.

Syntax

get the charSet of <stack>

Description

Use the charSet property to determine which platform the stack was last saved on.

If the charSet is "MacOS", the stack was last saved on a Mac OS|Mac OS system; if the charSet is "ISO", the stack was last saved on a Unix or Windows system.

When you open a stack on a Mac OS system that was last saved on a Unix or Windows system (or vice versa), the text in the stack is translated automatically to the appropriate character set. The process can take a perceptible amount of time, so it's a good idea to save a stack destined for a particular platform on that platform before delivering it to users.

The charSet property is changed for all stacks in the same stack file when the stack file is saved, so it is not possible for two stacks in the same file to have a different charSet.

Examples

if the charSet of this stack is "MacOS" then put "Mac" into thePlatform

Related

glossary: property, stack file, Windows, character set, Mac OS, Unix, ISO 8859

object: stack

function: numToChar, stacks, platform

Compatibility and Support

Introduced

LiveCode 1.0

OS

mac

windows

linux

ios

android

Platforms

desktop

server

mobile