Mixt 'normal' and unicodeText in a field ???

Björnke von Gierke bvg at mac.com
Sat Feb 13 06:35:57 EST 2010


put uniencode("and") into theText
set the useUnicode to true
set the unicodeText of fld "fKRAP" to numToChar(353) && theText && numToChar(353)


On 13 Feb 2010, at 12:07, Richmond Mathewson wrote:

> Cripes, I must be bonkers .  .  .  :)
> 
> Not really, just a bit cheesed off when I want to put something 'sophisticated' such as 'and'
> in between 2 unicode chars in a field where useUnicode is set to true I have to define it
> by numToChar(XXX) for each constituent character.
> 
> For example:
> 
> I wish to put unicode char numToChar(353) followed by ' and ' followed by numToChar(353)
> in a textField and I develop serious repetitive stress syndrome pumping out all those
> numToChars for space - a - n - d - space; a right mug's game!
> 
> So, naively, I tried this:
> 
> set the useUnicode to true
> set the unicodeText of fld "fKRAP" to numToChar(353) & " and " & numToChar(353)
> 
> and, while I got my 2 "353s" they were separated by Chinese chars (presumably
> because the " and " is read as double-byte chars).
> 
> Bright ideas (not excluding "Go out and climb the hills for 3 days") welcomed.
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