rev unicode still crap?

[Doug Lerner]

No wonder I have been having trouble with all my Japanese field editing
attempts!

doug

On 1/21/04 10:05 PM, "ron barber" <rbarber at yhb.att.ne.jp> wrote:

> 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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