Esperanto & Revolution

[Igor Couto]

Dear Toma,

Thank you for your reply!

On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 05:26  AM, Toma Tasovac wrote:

> I was thinking of writing a little Unicode tutorial anyway... why 
> don't you send me a stack which exemplifies some of your problems?  
> Let's get things rocking... :)
>

Here is a short list of some of the ones I haven't been able to 
overcome:

1) If you have a TABLE FIELD, there is no way to keep Esperanto text in 
any of the cells. As soon as you exit the cell, the Esperanto 
characters turn to gibberish. I've tried setting the textFont property 
of the field to ",Unicode" before typing, but that does not help, 
either.

2) If I have some Esperanto text that I want to pass as a string 
parameter to a handler That handler is supposed to put that text into a 
line in a field. I cannot find a way to do that successfully, and 
repeatedly. Most times it does not work, with the text being turned 
into Japanese, or gibberish. Every now and then, there is a script that 
works (using the htmlText property, not the unicodeText), but I cannot 
tell what it is that has happened differently - I think this has to do 
with the way Revolution keeps changing the textFont of chars inside 
fields. Sometimes I strike the right combination, just by accident. 
Anyway, if you know of a way to accomplish this RELIABLY, 
PLEEEEEEEEEASE share your tip!!!!  ;-)

3) How can I put an Esperanto label on a button? Setting the textFont 
of the button to ",Unicode", and then trying to enter a label in the 
Inspector, doesn't work. Trying to set it via script doesn't work 
either. What can I do?

I have been working on a reusable 'Translator' stack - the idea being 
that you enter a stringName, then the actual string, in different 
languages (each card in the stack represents a language). I have found 
that translating to 'run-of-the-mill' roman languages (Portuguese, 
Spanish, French) poses no problem - Revolution copes with these 
accented characters quite well. The problem only appears when I try to 
use a language that requires the 'US Extended' unicode keyboard layout 
as the input method - then, nothing seems to work...

Once again, thank you for your interest, and for your willingness to 
help!

Kind Regards,
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Igor
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