Unicode problem--Japanese book

[David Bovill]

I think you need to use the unicodetext property not the text property:

	set the unicodetext of fld 1 to the unicodetext of fld 2

Thomas McCarthy wrote:
> Up to MC 2.4 I was using the htmltext property to do all my Kanji, but it's a real drag.
> 
> With 2.5 I tried the unicode feature, but have run into trouble--i.e. the Kanji for book, "hon" doesn't show up when I move it from one field to another via script. --strangely other kanji seem unaffected.
> Here's the script I'm trying:
> 
> put item 3 of line tline of fld "tText" into fld "kanji"
> 
> Items 1 and 2 are the english meaning and the Japanese reading in a Latin script.
> 
> 
> Any hints would be appreciated.
> 
> On a Mac (still) with system 8.6 (who, me upgrade? seems like yesterday I was using and loving system 6.)
> tom mccarthy
> Iyo-Ehime
>