Esperanto & Revolution

[Manuel Companys]

I have not tried Unicode in Revolution yet. But I suspect that the 
problems encountered in Revolution, related to sorting, can only be 
worse with Unicode.

HyperCard used to give us the choice between ASCII sorting, and 
International (ignoring diacritics)  and even, but I am not positive 
about it, the language of the system's interface.

In the programs I am currently working on, I go though thre stages:
1. the zamenhofian H-u sytem
2. A specially made 256 ascii positions font. I can use it for ANY 
language written with the latin alphabet and IPA phonetics. But it can 
only be used in the mac platform, I guess.
3. Unicode. Of course it is the target, but I suspected a lot of 
diffiuclties would arise.

In the meanwhile  wrote a routine that sorts words accordin to the 
rules of several languages, among them h-esperanto. It can be adapted 
to stages b and c.

I am very interested in this question but I will be away for a month.

Manuel

Le mercredi, 25 juin 2003,  10:03 Europe/Paris, Igor Couto a crit :

> Hi all!
>
> I wanted to know from the other Esperantists in the list, what your 
> tips and tricks are for dealing with Esperanto text in Revolution. I'm 
> finding it really hard to deal with unicode text in any language that 
> is not a 'keyboard' language in MacOS X (ie, languages that you have 
> to use a unicode keyboard, such as the 'US Extended' keyboard layout, 
> for input). Revolution doesn't seem to want to respect my choice of 
> fonts, and keeps trying to turn my text into Geneva, or tag the font 
> as ". Japanese" - which causes major hassle...
>
> I have found that copying lines of text from one field to another via 
> script is almost impossible, requiring major workarounds - I have 
> tried using both the 'unicodeText' and the 'htmlText' properties.
>
> I have not been very successful in passing strings that contain 
> Esperanto characters as parameters, either. There must be something 
> quite basic that I am doing (or not doing), as my Esperanto characters 
> seem to have this knack for turning into  2 giberish ascii characters.
>
> All in all, it seems that despite its support for unicode, the 
> 'default' for working in Revolution is still ascii text. So, if your 
> application is going to be using Unicode THROUGHOUT and everywhere, 
> you have to use Unicode-converting functions everywhere, as it is 
> always trying to economise space by converting characters to ascii.
>
> I feel that I am missing something basic here - it surely can't be 
> this hard!
>
> Have the other Esperantists in the list been able to successfully work 
> with Esperanto text in their scripts? Any hints would be a great help!
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> --
> Igor de Oliveira Couto
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> igor at pixelmedia.com.au
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