numToChar and HTML5 ?

[Roger Eller]

Since html5 is a year away, I would assume later than 7.0.0, but possibly
backported into the 7 series.

~Roger
On Aug 16, 2014 9:05 AM, "Richmond" <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Let's just suppose I want to deploy my Devawriter as a web-browser based
> "thingy" . . .
>
> Now Devawriter is currently cooked up using Livecode 4.5, and as such
> makes heavy use of
>
> numToChar
>
> in fact one could almost say that Devawriter IS numToChar incarnated in
> physical form.
>
> I am well aware that with Livecode 7 numToChar for Unicode characters gets
> lost and is replaced
> by
>
> numToCodepoint  [no backwards compatibility in those parts]
>
> which means that should I want to compile a working version of my
> Devawriter I have to replace
> all my thousands of numToChar statements with numToCodepoint ones
>
> [which is really just an automated process]
>
> Now, the (post burble) question:
>
> Am I to take it as automatic that HTML5 (i.e. browser-based versions of
> Livecode standalones)
> will be hived off from Livecode 7.0.0 or later?
>
> Richmond.
>
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