returns the equivalent of a Mac OS character set string, translated into the Windows Latin 1 character set.
# Metadata
Platforms: desktop, server, mobile OS: mac, windows, linux, ios, android Introduced: 1.0 Security:
# Syntax
the macToISO of macString
# Params
- macString : Any <string>.
# Examples
macToISO("ISO 8859-1")
macToISO("edilla")
# Description
Use the macToISO function to translate data that was created on a Mac OS to the Windows Latin 1 character set used on Unix and Windows.
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 Windows Latin 1, so they are not changed by the macToISO function. These characters include uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and most punctuation.
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