My listing is eating itself...?

[TMD2003]

As some of you suspected, I am using UTF-8 (and I wouldn't usually need to switch), but presumably a better encoding to use is ANSI... right?

The corruption has completely sorted itself out - all I had to do was get shot of the local variables line. Though I'll try that trick with three LOCal lines and see if it still works.

The program is now complete! Likely as not it won't see the light of day before Christmas - it's not up to me to release it - but it'll get there.

A round of extra beansprouts in your next chow mein to all who helped!

[NormanDunbar]

The locals problem is a bug. 9 is the limit. Maybe SMSQ has fixed the problem of course.

Even with ANSI encoding, the QL character set doesn't completely match up. I think £ # (c) Euro give problems. Maybe more.

Cheers,
Norm.

[RalfR]

The locals problem is a bug. 9 is the limit.

Just with JS Rom (I thought...or was it JM?).

[NormanDunbar]

I've only had JS ROMs, so I'm almost certain it failed on that too.

[RalfR]

I've only had JS ROMs, so I'm almost certain it failed on that too.

Ah, ok, so I was a bit right

[dilwyn]

Always a good idea to familiarise yourself with the list of ROM bugs in the various ROM versions. Simon and Mark did a fantastic job with those articles - there are so many potential problems in there which just add to the difficulty of debugging basic programs if you don't know about them.

As some of you suspected, I am using UTF-8 (and I wouldn't usually need to switch), but presumably a better encoding to use is ANSI... right?

...so your next job will be to write a character conversion filter program

Seriously, UTF8 may be OK as long as you stick to QL character codes below 128, and are aware of the minor differences of a few characters such as the pound, hash, and copyright, I think those would still persist with ANSI.

A round of extra beansprouts in your next chow mein to all who helped!

Yuk, no thanks!

[janbredenbeek]

The locals problem is a bug. 9 is the limit. Maybe SMSQ has fixed the problem of course.

I've had similar experiences with too many LOCals on JS. Minerva and SMSQ are fine.

Jan