Umlaut--Success!

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Devin,

This is great news. I would like to do a few tests, but can't  
download your utf file. Is the address correct?

Mark

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Op 28-feb-2007, om 18:57 heeft Devin Asay het volgende geschreven:

>
>
> You *can* do this in Rev. Here's how I did it in OS X (I'm using  
> rev 2.8 in OSX 10.4.8):
>
> 1. Create a field and set its textfont to a unicode font:
>   set the textFont of fld "unistuff" to "Verdana,unicode"
>
> 2. Enable the Unicode Hex Input method in the International system  
> prefs under the input tab. This will cause the Unicode Hex Input  
> method to appear in the input menu (the one with the little flags  
> on the right side of the menubar.)
>
> 3. Position the insert cursor in the field, choose Unicode Hex  
> Input from the input menu, then type :
>   n (then, holding alt/option key down) 0308
>
>   the n with umlaut should appear.
>
> Sorry, don't know how to do this via direct input in Windows.  
> However, the following should work on either OS:
>
> 1. Create a UTF-8 encoded text file that includes the desired  
> character. I used BBedit, making sure I chose a font that supported  
> unicode (Tahoma or Lucida Grande should work) and that the document  
> encoding was set to UTF-8, then created the n-umlaut character just  
> as I described in #3 above.
>
> 2. Save the file to disk.
>
> 3. Read it in to your rev fld using the uniencode() function.
>
> I've created a stack that shows how to do this.
>
> go stack url "http://revolution.byu.edu/unicode/testUnicode.rev"
>
> You may also want to download the utf-8 file from http:// 
> revolution.byu.edu/unicode/textUni.ut8. This is the file that the  
> sample stack reads from.
>
> HTH
>
> Devin
>
> Devin Asay
> Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
> Brigham Young University