Unicode and N with a tilde

Warren Samples warren at warrensweb.us
Fri Dec 31 14:58:28 EST 2010


On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 20:45 +0200, Richmond wrote: 
> On 12/31/2010 08:29 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 18:15 +0200, Richmond wrote:
> >> Oh Gosh, I cannot write the Spanish for 'tomorrow' in Livecode . . .
> >>
> >> doing the following:
> >>
> >> set the useUnicode to true
> >> set the useUnicode of fld "XYZ" to numToChar(241)
> >>
> >> should [ a meaty modal verb if ever there was one ] produce an 'n' with
> >> a tilde
> >> over it; but it doesn't . . .
> >>
> >> . . .just a daft square . . .  :(
> >> _______________________________________________
> >
> >
> >
> > I don't have any trouble here using the special characters required for
> > Spanish, including "", as regular text in Livecode. Does your context
> > require unicode for some other reason?
> 
> http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/dwriterpro.html
> 
> > Warren
> >

Richmond,

  set the useunicode to true
  set the unicodetext of fld "XYZ" to numtochar(241)

Correctly places the  in the field for me, as well, here in Linux Mint.
(the snippet you posted has an error in it?)

Warren





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