Displaying Foreign Web Pages

[revolution at knowledgeworks.plus.com]

Hi Troy

I did indeed try :

set the unicodeText of field "field 1" to URL "binfile:c:\temp\google.htm"

but all I get is little boxes instead of characters.  Today I tried a 
different tack.  Since pasting from the clipboard at least managed to get 
the non-Roman characters displayed inside Rev, I tried to use the 
clipboard as a container:

put URL "http://www.google.co.th" into it
set the clipBoardData["Unicode"] to it
put the clipBoardData["Unicode"] into field "field 1"

But the characters that are put into the field are just the same mix of 
Roman character gibberish instead of Thai.

I had a look on a Win2K machine I have lying around, and that web page was 
displayed in Thai ok, and I could again copy the HTML source from Mozilla 
and paste it into a field in Rev, and the Thai characters again came over 
with the HTML.  However, when I try to move the mixture of Roman and 
non-Roman characters within Rev, I am having the same problems as before.

There seems to be no way that Rev can read a mixture of Roman and 
non-Roman characters on the same web page.  The only way Rev seems to be 
able to handle non-Roman characters is if they are pasted in from another 
application.  This surely can't be right.  Or am I fundamentally mistaken 
about what it means for Rev to support Unicode?  I'm really stumped by 
this.  I hope the simple examples (in my initial email on this subject) 
could be tried by a few of those who are more attuned with Rev 
text-manipulation than me (especially since on Windows machines it does 
not even look like you need to have any additional language facilities 
installed in order to view the foreign characters on pages like 
www.google.co.th).

In case others think this is a rather abstruse exercise - let me just 
point out that China and Japan offer huge markets for your applications, 
and if you design them so that the presentation is separate from the 
logic, being able to import a different language into the presentation 
brings these huge markets one step closer to you.

Regards,
Bernard Devlin





Troy Rollins <troy at rpsystems.net>
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On Jun 10, 2004, at 9:20 PM, revolution at knowledgeworks.plus.com wrote:

> The fundamental problem seems to be that Rev cannot read
> the Thai characters from a file or URL, but can display them when they 
> are
> copied over from the clipboard.

I have no idea if Thai is unicode formatted, but I assume you've tried 
setting the text field as "unicodetext", right?
--
Troy