Chinese Unicode problem

[ron barber]

Hi Fritz,

Please go to bugzilla and enter these. Or, let me know what they are 
and I will bugzilla them. Tuviah is working on many of the issues we 
have experienced with Japanese unicode but he can't fix what he doesn't 
know.

Ron



On Jun 7, 2004, at 4:11 PM, Friedrich F. Grohmann wrote:

> Frédéric,
>
> I've been struggling for a couple of months with Revolution and Asian
> scripts. Obviously, the earlier Macintosh operation systems and 
> HyperCard
> have spoiled me pretty much so that I have a hard time finding my way
> through all the marvels of OS X and Unicode and what not.
>
> Nevertheless, I managed to put a program together for one course I gave
> this semester, practically everything in Chinese, and the result does 
> not
> seem too bad, at least in my eyes, though I've lost count on how many
> times Revolution crashed on me. One of the worst drawbacks is that
> automatic line wrap does not work for Chinese. If you are dealing with
> large amounts of two-byte text and not some lonely characters here and
> there, you are going to waste a lot of time just fitting text into 
> fields.
>
> I've written a very simple stack in order to import Chinese text from
> system 9 files so that one can work with in Rev under OS X. The method 
> is
> primitive -I'm a philologist, not a professional scripter, and was 
> under
> too heavy time constrains to develop something more sophisticated- but 
> it
> works. Let me know if you want me to send you a copy.
>
> O yes, I should not forget to mention that one of the wonders of 
> working
> with Chinese under these conditions is that some characters can not be
> "translated" and end up as something which looks like a line brake and 
> is
> going to crash Revolution if you are not careful. I've identified four 
> or
> five culprits so far, by no means uncommon characters.
>
> Cordialement,
>
> Fritz
>
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