Umlaut--Success!

[Signe Marie Sanne]

Hello Devin,

I'm afraid none of the methods can be used. I have lots of texts in  
which I use "#" for the n with umlaut. These will be fed into fields  
on the fly appearing with the correct letter instead of the "#". So  
far I have used images for various text sizes which work reasonably  
well. My problem arose when I wanted to select a line in the text,  
then having to change the colour of the image as well. So I think  
I'll stick to the images, just double the sets of images with  
selection colours as well.  Thanks for all the help from you and Mark.

Signe Marie Sanne

Den 28. feb. 2007 kl. 18:57 skrev Devin Asay:
>  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
>
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