Rev fails to recognize Chinese

Thomas McGrath III 3mcgrath at adelphia.net
Tue Jan 27 19:16:15 EST 2004


I'm not a guru, but I think it is broke. :-)

I have never tried this with Chinese, but have seen pasting differences 
with plain english text files.

I am sorry that I have no solution.

Tom

On Jan 27, 2004, at 5:36 AM, Friedrich F. Grohmann wrote:

> I've been working with Macs for a number of years under systems ranging
> from 7.5 to 9.2. Much of my data is in Chinese and I've made extensive
> use of HC in the past. Since I just got one PowerBook G4 with Panther
> installed, I finally decided to begin migrating to Revolution.
>
> To my utter astonishment, however, I can't get Rev to find Chinese in a
> text field if the text has been copied into the field. It will duly
> recognize newly typed text but does not react if it has been pasted.
> Since this happens in the case of both OS 9 and OS X files and since
> AppleWorks 6 does not have the same problem I can not imagine that this
> has anything to do with fonts (which are anyway all Apple fonts).
>
> Why does pasted Chinese escape Revolution? I will be enormously 
> grateful
> if one of the gurus on the list could enlighten me about the cause for
> this behaviour  and graciously point out a solution.
>
> Fritz
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