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Name: ISOToMac
Type: function
Syntax: the ISOToMac of <ISOString>
Syntax: ISOToMac(<ISOString>)
<return|Returns> the equivalent of a Windows Latin 1 <string>, in the
<Mac OS> <character set>.
Introduced: 1.0
OS: mac, windows, linux, ios, android
Platforms: desktop, server, mobile
ISOToMac("Ab4+")
ISOToMac("")
charToNum(ISOToMac(numToChar(myASCIIVal)))
Parameters:
ISOString (string):
The <ISOToMac> <function> <return|returns> the <ISOString>, with
<characters> whose <ASCII|ASCII value> is greater than 127 converted to
their equivalent in the <Mac OS> <character set>. <Characters(keyword)>
whose <ASCII|ASCII value> is less than 128 are left unchanged.
Description:
Use the <ISOToMac> <function> to translate data that was created on a
<Unix> or <Windows|Windows system> to the <Mac OS> <character set>.
LiveCode automatically translates text in fields and scripts, as well as
the names of custom properties, into the appropriate character set when
you move a stack from one platform to another. It is therefore not
necessary to translate them. However, the contents of custom properties,
since they may contain binary data, are not translated automatically and
must be translated if they contain characters whose ASCII value is 128
or greater.
Characters whose ASCII value is less than 128 are the same in the Mac OS
character set and ISO 8859-1, so they are not changed by the <ISOToMac>
<function>. These <characters> include uppercase and lowercase letters,
numbers, and most punctuation.
References: function (control structure), numToChar (function),
uniDecode (function), Unix (glossary), Windows (glossary),
Mac OS (glossary), return (glossary), character set (glossary),
ASCII (glossary), string (keyword), characters (keyword)
Tags: text processing

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