Unicode woes

[Malte Brill]

Hey Richmond,

maybe these might come in handy:

setprop cUTF8Text pUTF8String
    if word 1 of the name of the target<>"field" and word 1 of the name of the target<>"button" then
        if "dev" is in the environment then
            throw "cUTF8Text: Target is not a field or Button"
        end if
        exit cUTF8Text
    end if
    if word 1 of the name of the target = "field" then
        set the unicodetext of the target to uniencode(pUTF8String,"UTF8")
    else
        set the text of the target to uniencode(pUTF8String,"UTF8")
        set the textFont of the target to ",UNICODE"
    end if
end cUTF8Text

getprop cUTF8Text
    if word 1 of the name of the target<>"field" and  word 1 of the name of the target<>"button" then
        if "dev" is in the environment then
            throw "cUTF8Text: Target is not a field or button"
        end if
        exit cUTF8Text
    end if
    if word 1 of the name of the target="field" then
        return unidecode(the unicodetext of the target,"UTF8")
    else
      if ",UNICODE" is in the textfont of the target then
        return unidecode(the text of the target,"UTF8")
     end if
    end if
end cUTF8Text

Keep them at stack level or in a library stack. Use them the following way:

put the cUTF8Text of field "ContainsMixedChars" into tUTF8 
--> Now holds a correctly UTF8 encoded string
--> UTF8 is double byte only when needed and things like the itemdel 
--> do work as expected on UTF8 text

put "aoi" after tUTF8

set the cUTF8Text of field "ContainsMixedChars" to tUTF8 

I have taken these scripts from the unicode lib that I am still trying to set up. If there is any interested, I'll upload it to revOnline and announce it on the list.

Cheers,

Malte