Unicode frustration

[Brad Borch]

> Can you set the textfont of the field itself, rather than in the htmltext?
If I set the textfont, the non-unicode text changes.
If I actually select the text in the field and change the font via the 
menu, the text is converted to the single-byte characters (in other 
words, an α is converted to ±, even though the font I've selected is a 
Unicode font (in this case, Bitstream Vera Sans).

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Brad Borch
> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 1:28 PM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Unicode frustration
> 
> Ok, I'm befuddled. I'm not quite sure how Revolution handles unicode. I 
> have a field that lists all the fonts in my system. The Rev 
> documentation says:
> 
> "Revolution automatically sets the textFont of double-byte characters to 
> the appropriate Unicode font."
> 
> So if I set the htmltext of a field like so:
> 
> <font face="Bitstream Vera" lang="en-UC">αβγδε ελλενικα</font>
> 
> The first string of Greek characters is rendered as Greek, but the 
> second is rendered as Asian characters (I don't know which). Getting the 
> html text of the field after setting it to the above string yields this:
> 
> <p><font face="Bitstream Vera" 
> lang="en-UC">αβγδε 딃묃묃딃봃뤃먃</font></p>
> 
> If I take out the space in the text I originally pasted, it renders the 
> entities correctly:
> 
> <p><font face="Bitstream Vera" 
> lang="en-UC">αβγδεελλενικα</font></p>
> 
> So there's some conversion going on inside Revolution to standardize the 
> html, but it looks like there's a bug in the process somewhere.
> 
> If I type or paste in Greek unicode characters, the htmltext gets 
> updated to reflect the text: paste in "αβγδε ελλενικα" and get the 
> htmltext, the font tag gets updated to include "lang="el"" (doesn't 
> matter what face it is, I guess it just uses whatever is the default 
> Unicode font.
> 
> What's happening here? How can I force Rev to use the Unicode text I 
> want it to use?
> 
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