unicode in beta

[mark mitchell]

Tuviah wrote:

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

Hey, that works, congratulations!  Now everything looks like it is 
working pretty well, provided you start with 2 'fresh' unicode font 
fields.  I was opening up old stacks that already had non-unicode 
Japanese written in the fields, and these do not work so well under the 
new engine.  It may end up being a lot of work to use old stacks 
containing Japanese, since it looks like we've got to recode the scrips 
as well, but I haven't really played with them much yet.  I also 
discovered that this works:

put the unicodeText of character 7 to 8 of field 1 into character 7 to 8 
of field 2

but not ".....into the unicode text of character 7 to 8 of field 1" or 
variations thereof.

Any other nifty lines we should be aware of?

Also, if if you accidently type Japanese in the messagebox (as everyone 
does) you can't just delete and retype the english.  Will switching the 
message box to a unicode font fix this?

mm