formattedText and Unicode

[Richard Gaskin]

I've been avoiding using Unicode because of all the difficulties noted 
here with Rev, and I just haven't needed it.  But now I have a bunch of 
files in which I don't know whether they're UTF-8 or UTF-16, and I don't 
know which language's character set they use.

First, I need to just display these in a field. That would seem simple 
enough, but I haven't figured out a reliable way to do this without 
knowing some external information about the files.  Use the wrong 
character set and they look like junk.

Then I need to get the formattedText of the field so I can measure 
distances to line breaks.  So far it seems that the formattedText 
property is limited to ASCII only -- is that correct?

Am I just missing something obvious here?

I'll continue with my experiments, but if you have any pointers they 
would be much appreciated.

TIA -

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World
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