Storing Unicode - for cross-platform apps in MC 2.5.

[david]

Thanks Tuviah,

Was wandering about UTF-8 - it's not mentioned in the docs.

> MC will do this automatically if the text is stored in a field, and the
> field is using a unicode font.
> 

Storing custom properties is now encoded correctly when opened on different
platforms I think, so this will work with the method you proposed for using
custom properties (even with double byte characters) - or am I missing
something?

I'd been using custom properties and 16 bit unicode - but had problems. I'll
try UTF-8...

> It can change with each processor. A way to get at this info (maybe a
> byteswapped function) would be useful.
> 

I'd second that - is there a web source for this info - could script a
function for now?