LiveCode 7 codepoint question

[Dar Scott]

Al,

I just quickly added a Japanese keyboard option to my OS X keyboard menu.  I selected to Katakana keyboard and typed in DO in a LiveCode field.  It was one codepoint and one character.  I don’t know how to type the voicing mark separately.  

Dar


On Apr 18, 2014, at 4:42 PM, Dar Scott <dsc at swcp.com> wrote:

> Oh, no, not at all.  You can type in Japanese.  Well, I’m pretty sure.  
> 
> My daughter does it all the time in other applications.  She types in romaji (western letters).  I think that gets combined to katakana (phonetic) and then she can choose one of may choices of Kanji (Chinese looking).  Something like that.
> 
> I don’t have a Japanese keyboard enabled on my computer, so I didn’t bother.
> 
> The reason for the script was to illustrate that the Katakana DO can be written as to basic symbols, the TO plus a voicing mark.  Notice the sounds are similar; one is unvoiced and one is voiced.  The TO and the voicing mark are two code points in LiveCode, but one character in LiveCode.  I wanted to make sure I got exactly those code points, so I could show that a string with two code points can contain one character.  
> 
> Notice that in Unicode the combining mark comes after the character it combines with.  
> 
> Now, I can type in Japanese in a crude way because I usually use the U+ keyboard on OS X.  I hold down option and type in the hex code.  
> 
> So…   ト		ド
> 
> That would not be the way for someone entering Japanese text to do it.  But, for a Unicode learner like me, it works.
> 
> Dar
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 18, 2014, at 4:27 PM, Alejandro Tejada <capellan2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Dar Scott wrote
>>> [snip]
>>>  put numToCodepoint( 0x30C8 ) into kto
>>>  put numToCodepoint( 0x30C9 ) into kdo
>>>  put numToCodepoint( 0x3099 ) into kVoiceMark
>>>  put numToCodepoint( 0xFF9E ) into kHalfVoiceMark
>>>  put kto & kVoiceMark into kdoAlt1
>>>  put length(kdoAlt1) into kdoAlt1N
>>>  put kto & kHalfVoiceMark into kdoAlt2
>>>  put length(kdoAlt2) into kdoAlt2N
>>>  put kto & tab & kdo & tab & kdoAlt1 & tab & kdoAlt1N & tab & kdoAlt2 &
>>> tab & kdoAlt2N
>>> [snip]
>> 
>> Does this means that the only way to write Japanese
>> in a field is using a script (or pasting the characters
>> from the clipboard)?
>> 
>> Al
>> 
>> 
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