Script Editor and Unicode

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Sat Jun 29 02:12:13 EDT 2013


On 06/29/2013 04:07 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> Richmond-
>
> Friday, June 28, 2013, 11:27:41 AM, you wrote:
>
>> set the script of btn "unicodeTest" to fld "Nonsense"
> Because "set the script of" doesn't put text into the script editor's
> script field, but instead it triggers the engine to compile the
> script. So your beef isn't with the Script Editor per se, but with the
> parser in the engine that is throwing errors when it encounters
> unicode. And that's a legitimate beef, and one that hopefully will be
> addressed soon.
>

Thanks for the clarification.

The main reason we need to be able to put unicode in a script is so that one
can write:

put "!@#$%^&*() into fld "output1"

rather than a whole chain of extremely tedious numToChar statements.

Richmond.




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