TextField.KeyDown event is US-ASCII, TextField.Text is UTF-8 ?!?

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I discovered something that seems odd today: The string that is returned via TextField.KeyDown is encoded as US-ASCII, but when getting the string from TextField.Text, it’s encoding is UTF-8. I’m typing a single character into the TextField)

Can someone explain why they’re different?

I’m on a Mac, running 2015r2.

Thanks!

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US-ASCII is a subset of UTF-8

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[quote=187767:@John McKernon]I discovered something that seems odd today: The string that is returned via TextField.KeyDown is encoded as US-ASCII, but when getting the string from TextField.Text, it’s encoding is UTF-8. I’m typing a single character into the TextField)

Can someone explain why they’re different?

I’m on a Mac, running 2015r2.

Thanks![/quote]

If you type an accented character or UTF-8 symbol such as “à”, it returns an UTF-8 string.

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Since US-ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, does that mean I don’t need to convert it to UTF-8 before comparing it to another string that is UTF-8?

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Text comparison is encoding-savvy. You wouldn’t need to convert it anyway.

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Ah, I’d forgotten that, thanks!