foreign languages in the script editor

[Dar Scott]

On Aug 30, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Lars Brehmer wrote:

> Is there a way to use non Roman characters in the script editor?  I  
> have a pop-up menu button that gives two language choices for the  
> program interface language - Estonian and Russian.  All buttons and  
> a few other things have 2 profiles - Estonian and Russian with the  
> labels and text in the appropriate language.  The problem seems to  
> be that when I put the  Russian choices into the menuPick script it  
> doesn't respond. When I switch profiles with the message box, all  
> is well.  Is there a workaround for this?  Another way characterize  
> the menu choices that are in Russian in the button pop-up?

Would menu history do what you want?  Maybe you can ignore pWhichItem  
and menuHistory.

What gets stuck into the script property does not seem to be what is  
typed in in the editor.  The script property seems to get the low  
byte of each Unicode character.  An alternate script editor might use  
some special syntax (say U"...") to generate UTF-8 or to build UTF-16  
with format(), but I don't know of any such editor.

Dar Scott