Unicode in Answer Dialog on iOS

Jim Little littlejamesw at mac.com
Sat Mar 2 01:41:26 EST 2013


Thanks, Kee and Monte.

We'll try a fake dialog.

Jim & Todd 


On Mar 1, 2013, at 4:17 PM, kee nethery wrote:

> 
> On Mar 1, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Jim Little <littlejamesw at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> We're trying to localize an iOS app for Japanese.  We're stuck with trying to use unicode in Answer dialogues on iOS.  
>> 
>> We've tried:
>> 
>> 1.  HTML-formatted strings outputs to <p> tags 
>> 2.  RTF-formatted strings outputs with tags 
>> 3.  All sorts of combinations of unicode-text and unidecode() outputs as garbled text  
>> 
>> Any suggestions on how to make this work?
> 
> Skip using the answer dialog and build your own.
> 
> I create a fake dialog by having a full stack window transparent button that covers the entire card. On top of that I have the image of  a dialog. In that I have fields and buttons. Until they deal with the fake dialog, the transparent button prevents them from interacting with anything else on the screen. It's a hack but it works.
> 
> Kee Nethery





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