the mouseText and Unicode: a 3-char puzzle

[Slava Paperno]

I like your definition... "a poor man's Unicode." Cute.

Thanks for everything,

Slava

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-
> bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of BNig
> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 5:39 PM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: the mouseText and Unicode: a 3-char puzzle
> 
> Slava,
> 
> it worked on a self assembled russian text including em-dash and
> guillemets
> but not on your text.
> 
> This works on your text:
> 
> ------------------------------------------
> on mouseUp
>    lock screen
>    get word 4 of the clickCharChunk
>    put it into tSelPos
>    put 0 into tStartSel
> 
>    repeat with i = tSelPos down to 1
>       put the htmlText of char i of field "textToClickB" into tHTML
>       if  (tHTML contains  "<p> <" or tHTML is "<p></p>" or tHTML
> contains
> ">,<" or tHTML contains ">.<"  \
>             or tHTML contains "> </font" or tHTML contains
> ">&•••nbsp;<" or tHTML contains ">&•••laquo;<" or tHTML
> contains
> ">&•••raquo;<") then
>          put i into tStartSel
>          exit repeat
>       end if
>    end repeat
> 
>    put the number of chars of field 1 into tEndSel
>    repeat with i = tSelPos to the number of chars of field 1
>       put the htmlText of char i of field "textToClickB" into tHTML
>       put char i of tData into taChar
>       if  (tHTML contains  "<p> <" or tHTML is "<p></p>" or tHTML
> contains
> ">,<" or tHTML contains ">.<"  \
>             or tHTML contains "> </font" or tHTML contains
> ">&•••nbsp;<" or tHTML contains ">&•••laquo;<" or tHTML
> contains
> ">&•••raquo;<") then
>          put i into tEndSel
>          exit repeat
>       end if
>    end repeat
> 
>    select char tStartSel + 1 to tEndSel -1 of me
> 
>    put the htmlText of  the selectedtext into tWordClicked
>    set the htmlText of field "ClickedWord" to tWordClicked
>    unlock screen
> end mouseUp
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> I added 3 bullets ••• to prevent the automatic conversion to the html
> characters, I am posting via Nabble. You'd have to remove the ••• and
> please
> watch out for linebreaks.
> 
> 
> I am shure there are more gotchas and it is not getting nicer this way
> but
> it is a poor man's unicode :)
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Bernd