Linux questions for Jacque

[J. Landman Gay]

Bob Warren wrote:
> Jacque:
> 
> I have just made another little test program so that I can type into the 
> field. My wife's Ubuntu is in Portuguese, and she has an ABNT keyboard.
> 
> Of course, when she uses any program other than Rev (Word, Text Editor), 
> everything is 100%.
> 
> On her computer, if I try typing Portuguese symbols into the field of 
> the test stack, I get nothing but junk (pairs of symbols). The 
> characters that correspond to English ones come out OK.
> 
> If I paste Portuguese text into the test field, it displays perfectly, 
> but when trying to print, the result is the same as on my computer.

This sounds suspiciously like a unicode issue to me. What does the 
message box tell you if you type:

   put the textfont of fld <whatever>

If the text isn't all one font, you should see "mixed". When you paste 
unicode text into a field, the textfont will change to a unicode font 
for the pasted chunk. If you can calculate it, try getting the text 
offsets for a pasted chunk and ask the message box this:

  the textfont of char <x> to <y> of fld <whatever>

What do you get back? Is it just something like "Ariel" or is two words 
separated by a comma?

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