Wildcard expressions and unicode ???

[Peter Brigham MD]

Unfortunately, I don't really get how unicode works, as I have never  
had to make use of it regularly. Maybe someone who knows more can help  
here. What happens when you step through it in the debugger?

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig


On Apr 6, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:

> On 06/04/2010 14:57, Peter Brigham MD wrote:
>> Try this? Untested but should work. (The untested part is the first  
>> handler -- the offsets() function I have been using for years.)
>>
>> on mouseup
>>   set the useUnicode to true
>>   put numtochar(57888) into targetChar
>>   put the unicodetext of fld "FIRST" into uText
>>   put offsets(targetChar,uText) into offsetList
>>   if offsetList = 0 then exit mouseup
>>   repeat for each item i in offsetList
>>      put char i+1 of uText & targetChar into \
>>                 char i to i+1 of uText
>>   end repeat
>>   set the unicodetext of fld "FIRST" to uText
>> end mouseup
>>
>> function offsets str,cntr
>>   -- returns a comma-delimited list
>>   -- of all the offsets of str in cntr
>>   if str is not in cntr then return 0
>>   put "" into offsetList
>>   put 0 into startPoint
>>   repeat
>>      put offset(str,cntr,startPoint) into thisOffset
>>      if thisOffset = 0 then exit repeat
>>      add thisOffset to startPoint
>>      put startPoint & comma after offsetList
>>   end repeat
>>   delete last char of offsetList
>>   return offsetList
>> end offsets
>>
> Unfortunately does not work, but
>
> in my fld "FIRST", which initially contains 4 unicode chars, outputs  
> 2 unicode chars.
>
> Probably something to do with the fact that those are 4 double-byte  
> chars.
>
> This is where "Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits"; the  
> antic being the problem
> with double-byte characters:
>
> "Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,
> Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
> To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks,"
>
> and mysen fair forjeskit . . .  :(  an blackafrontit tae!  whit a  
> scunner.
>
> I was monarchizin a bit, so pleased with my unicode "exchange"  
> script, but
> the antic (as usual) scoffed most effectively at my self-assumed pomp.
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