Script Editor and Unicode

[Richmond]

On 06/28/2013 09:24 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
> Hi Richmond,
>
> Almost every current development tool can do that, except for 
> LiveCode. What we need is a UTF8 script editor.

Um!

That doesn't sound all that good.

What I do not understand is, if the script editor contains a field 
"Scripts" in which one writes scripts,
why one cannot put unicodeText into it just as one does in any other 
texrtField?

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> On 6/28/2013 20:10, Richmond wrote:
>> I wonder how one can enter unicodeText directly into the script editor?
>>
>> When one wants to put a script into an object without opening the script
>> editor one does this sort of thing:
>>
>> set the script of btn "unicodeTest" to fld "Nonsense"
>>
>> now, if fld "nonsense" contains unicodeText that just ends up delivering
>> gobbledegook.
>>
>> this:
>>
>> set the useUnicode to true
>> set the script of btn "unicodeTest" to fld "Nonsense"
>>
>> is no better . . .
>>
>> the reason for this, presumably, is that when one enters unicodeText
>> into a fld the
>>
>> set the useUnicode to true  is directly addressed to the fld, while in
>> my rather feeble attempt above it is aimed at the script rather than the
>> script entry field of
>> the script editor
>>
>> if one tries this sort of thing:
>>
>> set the useUnicode to true
>> set the unicodeText of fld "Scripts" of the script of btn "unicodeTest"
>> to fld "Nonsense"
>>
>> an error is thrown.
>>
>> Richmond.
>>
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