rev unicode still crap?

[ron barber]

Hi Mark

RR is still not there concerning unicode in general and Japanese in 
particular. We are waiting in confidence that Tuviah and others will 
come through with everything promised by v2.5. However, there was a bug 
fixed with uniencode/decode in 2.1.2. I suggest you download the trial 
and try it.

Ron

On Jan 21, 2004, at 6:07 PM, mark wrote:

> After beating my head on the wall in the past, I decided to return to 
> this issue.  However, as far as I can tell, the unicode and uniEncode 
> capability of rev is still crap.  I attempted to convert an old stack 
> into unicode... very simple script:
>
> create field
> put uniEncode(field "oldshiftJis",Japanese) into last field
> set the textFont of last field to "osaka,japanese"
>
> The new fields made in this way display the japanese text just fine.  
> But if you attempt to edit them, you go into endless beachball spin 
> and have to force-quit rev. Again and again....
>
> This is rev 2.02 on mac OS10.2.  I would purchase the update to rev 
> 2.1x if the unicode handling were not still crap in that.  Anyone know 
> if it was improved between these versions? Boy do I pine for the ease 
> of Hypercard's Japanese ability!
>
> mark mitchell
> japan
>
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