Copying 15k string takes 9 secs on an M2

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Here is some stuff from the forum talking about various Unicode related issues:

RTF Copy & Paste weird behaviour

Hello everyone! I’m new to Xojo and can’t seem to figure out a problem… MacOS Monterey Xojo 2022 1 Desktop Let’s say I have a very simple TextArea (Allow Styled Text ON) Nothing else… With MacOS TextEdit I open an RTF file (which I attach) and TextEdit shows it to me the way I want it. I do a simple copy & paste in the TextArea and the text comes out identical … So I’ll did this … I open with a text editor (BBedit) the RTF file that gives me the following result {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg12…

StyledText.RTFData encodes multibyte characters incorrectly.

<https://xojo.com/issue/60642> (currently private because Feedback is bugged, hopefully somebody will fix the case soon) Edit: Well esoTalk really messed this up. [code]Var Input As String = “<>” Var Styles As New StyledText Var Run As New StyleRun(Input) Styles.AddStyleRun(Run) Var RTFData As String = Styles.RTFData Styles = New StyledText Styles.RTFData = RTFData Var Result As String = Styles.StyleRun(0).Text[/code] The input bytes are F09F 8D89 but result comes back as EDA0 BCED BD8…

textEncoding fails with russian text

My app loads RTF-documents to a TextArea. All works properly, until I try to open a file with russian text. In that case, as line like “??? ???, ? ??? ???” suddenly looks like " , ". The encoding of the TextArea is prompted as “2” equals UTF8, after I load the file to the TextArea. (TextArea1.Value.Encoding.Format.ToString) Strangely, if I force-save the RTF-document in apple TextEdit to UTF8, suddenly the text appears correct in my TextArea. Must be some mismatch of encodings? How to find o…

Problem with character dec 8217 hex 2019 writing to file

When I am writing a string to an rtf-file, the character ’ which is dec 8217 or hex 2019 in the file is written as: ’ I tried to change the encoding of the string to UFT8 and WindowsANSI, but nothing worked. Any ideas?