Chinese puzzle

[xbury.cs at clearstream.com]

not that Im chinese or use such a system but...

have you tried setting the text of the field as 
htmltext or rtf? Ultimately there's also the unicodetext,
unidecode/uniencode functions that might help...

You might want to also reset the properties of your
field before inputing info it. Since by default the fields
dont have a "font" assigned... But you probably tried that...

Maybe it's just "yet another Microsoft puzzle"...
Then again, MC seems to be a "Unicode capable program"...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Cragg [mailto:dcragg at lacscentre.co.uk]
> Sent: 08 January 2003 12:47
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Chinese puzzle
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> My problem is not how to render Chinese text, but how not to.
> 
> I received the report from a user of Chinese Windows, but can 
> reproduce it here on Win XP by setting "Language for non-Unicode 
> programs" to Chinese (under the Advanced tab on "Regional and 
> Language Options" Control Panel). This is with MC 2.4.3.
> 
> In fields which contain "high-ASCII" characters, these characters 
> will pair with the following character and be drawn as a double-byte 
> Chinese character. (For example, an opening curly quote followed by a 
> "y".) This happens even when the field's font is a Latin font (such 
> as Verdana), and also when setting the font of the specific 
> characters to a Latin font. (set the textfont of char 1 to -1 of 
> field 1 to "Verdana")
> 
> I'm familiar with similar behavior in Japanese, but only when the 
> underlying font is a Japanese font.  I've confirmed that the same 
> thing doesn't happen in Metacard with Japanese when Japanese is set 
> as "Language for non-Unicode programs". (Ie. Japanese will display 
> when the font is Japanese, and the usual gobbledegook when a Latin 
> font is used.)
> 
> Does anyone know how to get round this problem short of having 
> Chinese OS users set English as "Language for non-Unicode programs" 
> (not practical) or removing all high-numbered characters?
> 
> Cheers
> Dave
> 
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