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isoTransfer

A utility for convert high ASCII characters cross-platform

NOTE: This suite was written by Christopher Short. filsa.net is glad to host this software; however, all correspondence concerning isotransfer should be directed to Christopher. --Phil Suh

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suites.isoTransfer by Christopher Short
christopher.short@abare.gov.au
version 1.0b1
Why I Wrote It
Transferring data between Mac's and Windows machines creates problems for high ascii characters. Each OS maps them differently.
What It Does
Frontier comes with a very powerful verb: string.iso8859encode.
This verb will take any string and replace each character within the string with an entity from a table you supply.
Userland use this verb to replace high ascii characters with ISO8859-1 entities for creating webpages.
I created the necessary tables to replace the character in one OS with the character of another OS.
IsoTransfer will either translate whatever you want in place - that is, overwriting the original data - or it will put a copy of the data in system.temp
The suite will transfer entire objects - whole tables or individual cells.
So, you can translate from Mac to Windows and then transfer an object. Or transfer an object as is, and then translate.

This is Phil's Frontier Scripting Site. San Francisco, CA
Copyright © 1996-98, Phil Suh. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.filsa.net/frontier/software/isotransfer.html
This page last built on 6/28/99; 11:12:35 PM

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	Monday, June 28, 1999 isoTransfer A utility for convert high ASCII characters cross-platform
	NOTE: This suite was written by Christopher Short. filsa.net is glad to host this software; however, all correspondence concerning isotransfer should be directed to Christopher. --Phil Suh This is a Fat Page. suites.isoTransfer by Christopher Short christopher.short@abare.gov.au version 1.0b1 Why I Wrote It Transferring data between Mac's and Windows machines creates problems for high ascii characters. Each OS maps them differently. What It Does Frontier comes with a very powerful verb: string.iso8859encode. This verb will take any string and replace each character within the string with an entity from a table you supply. Userland use this verb to replace high ascii characters with ISO8859-1 entities for creating webpages. I created the necessary tables to replace the character in one OS with the character of another OS. IsoTransfer will either translate whatever you want in place - that is, overwriting the original data - or it will put a copy of the data in system.temp The suite will transfer entire objects - whole tables or individual cells. So, you can translate from Mac to Windows and then transfer an object. Or transfer an object as is, and then translate.

	This is Phil's Frontier Scripting Site. San Francisco, CA Copyright © 1996-98, Phil Suh. All Rights Reserved. http://www.filsa.net/frontier/software/isotransfer.html This page last built on 6/28/99; 11:12:35 PM