Adventures in Unicode

[Richmond Mathewson]

On 07/04/2011 10:44 PM, Slava Paperno wrote:
> Richmond,
>
> Why don't you switch to using revBrowser to do all your text display, font
> resizing, and font-family changes? Works like a clock... and you don't have
> to hold your breath. (But there's no revBrowser for mobiles.)

I think the sheer effort of having to recode 2 years' work to use 
revBrowser might
prove counter productive; може би аз съм малко глупов, but Ahm nae that 
gyte!

> Slava
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-
>> bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Richmond Mathewson
>> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 3:03 PM
>> To: How to use LiveCode
>> Subject: Adventures in Unicode
>>
>> possibly subtitled "Wading through treacle".
>>
>> My 'eternal' Devawriter didn't display glyphs properly once they were
>> entered via a slightly mephistophelian process into the OUTPUT field,
>> and at least one of my beta-testers was getting quite crochety about it
>> (mainly as I had had no epiphanies of late). Then, flashes of slightly
>> murky light, and it occurred to me that upping the textSize of the
>> output field,
>> and then setting it down by one again . . . take a deep breath, you
>> know
>> Richmond is daft . . . and then, of course, one has to shift the
>> unicodeText out
>> of the field while it is resized and then return it . . .
>>
>> But; it worketh . . .
>>
>> follow me closely:
>>
>> set the useUnicode to true
>>     set the unicodeText of the fld "HOLDER" to the unicodeText of fld
>> "OUTPUT"
>> put the textSize of fld "OUTPUT" into BIGGY
>> put BIGGY + 1 into BIGGGY
>> set the textSize of fld " OUTPUT" to BIGGGY
>> put empty into fld "OUTPUT"
>> set the unicodeText of the fld "OUTPUT" to the unicodeText of fld
>> "HOLDER"
>> put empty into fld "HOLDER"
>> set the unicodeText of the fld "HOLDER" to the unicodeText of fld
>> "OUTPUT"
>> set the textSize of fld " OUTPUT" to BIGGY
>> put empty into fld "OUTPUT"
>> set the unicodeText of the fld "OUTPUT" to the unicodeText of fld
>> "HOLDER"
>> put empty into fld "HOLDER"
>> select after fld "OUTPUT"
>>
>> this is just about as clunky as one gets, but it seems the only way in
>> which one can ensure unicodeText is represented properly.
>>
>> and, before you mention it:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noddy_Holder
>>
>> I'm off to the funny-farm for a quick frontal lobotomy after that one
>> (which took me about a year to come round to).
>>
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