Umlaut on a consonant letter

Signe Marie Sanne Signe.Sanne at roman.uib.no
Thu Dec 23 06:09:58 EST 2004


Dar Scott skrev:
> 
> On Dec 22, 2004, at 1:07 PM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
> 
>> I have a stack I use to figure out Unicode numbers for various symbols -
>> the one thing I found was that any use of Unicode in a field really
>> requires that the whole field be in Unicode. Otherwise, it gets
>> confused. Have others found this?
> 
> 
> I was just about to send a comment on this.
> 
> I noticed that if textFont of the field is set to "Lucida 
> Grande,Japanese", the unicode method I tried works.
> 
> It seems that otherwise, Revolution tries to separate the n from the 
> combining character and put it outside of unicode.
> 
> It is weird using "Japanese" as the language for the font.
> 
> This now works:
> 
> on mouseUp
>   set useUnicode to true
>   set the textFont of field "field" to "Lucida Grande,Japanese"
>   set the unicodeText of field "field" to numToChar(110) & numToChar(776)
>   put the htmlText of field "field"
> end mouseUp
> 
> Dar
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Lots of thanks to Richard, Dar, Jonathan and Frank. I now have a field 
exposing text with accented letters and the umlaut at the same time.

Merry Christmas to all the very helpful Revolutionies!

Best from Norway
Signe Marie Sanne


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