Unicode compliant ?

[muaadh salih]

IS Revolution version 2 a fully Unicode Compliant?
Our problem is that we are intending to migrate to R  as our main 
programming language  for our
CALL (Computer assisted language learning) for teaching Arabic, 
Hebrew and  Persian.
It seems that we can programm for any text manipulations at all .

   Example "
a card with field 1 ,field 2 ans button 1
to set textfont of field 1 to a specific Hebrew font does through 
programming not have any effect so we have to set it manually.
So field1 was manually set to Arabic, or Hebrew fonts and r-l 
direction as was field 2.

we entered manually a Semitic text in field 1.

  The button script is
On mouseUP
Get field 1
put it into field 2
end mouse up

the result is not only that field 2 is filled with garbage but filed 
1 original text is turned in garbage as well

any solution?

Is there any thing like set text font of message box to "abc" ? in revolution?


We are a member of 14 European Universities thinking of leaving 
HyperCard  but Revolution is still proving difficult.


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All the best

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M.  Salih
N.M.E. Dept.
SOAS
University of London
Thornhaugh Street
London WCIH OXG

Tel. (UK) 020  7898 4354 Direct
               020  7898 4320 Dept.
eMail: ms1 at soas.ac.uk