Still struggling with Unicode

[Richmond]

On 31.08.2014 15:05, Graham Samuel wrote:
> Richmond -
>
> Sorry to hear you're in hospital, Richmond - get better soon! I wonder what Bulgarian hospital food is like...

Hospital food is as hospital food does, all over the world. But my 
wonderful wife keeps bringing
me goodies!

What is far more important is that the standard of medicine in the 
hospital I'm is
top-knotch and they saved my life.

No, FFS, stop feeling sorry about me and get yourself sorted out re 
Livecode and Unicode :)

>
> What you tell me fills me with trepidation. My notion is that there will be an app, totally out of my control, running on some box (PC. Mac or Linux - probably the latter) which accepts input of symbols not easy to key in at my end but easy for that user (perhaps they have an Anglo-Saxon or a Sanskrit, or Greek, or even a Mathematical keyboard). The word processor allows styles (bold, italic etc), and then it uses these frankly insane Unicode variants to incorporate some of the styles into the very characters (codepoints) themselves. Such text is then copied and pasted into my LC app, which is then doomed (if its job is to treat all or some of these characters as operators rather than just letters of some alphabet) to recognise all the variants, or put up with the fact that the user will be mystified when one version of a character (codepoint) is recognised and another, just a little bit different, isn't. This goes against years and years of treating styled text as an add-on to plain text which can be stripped out by program. Yuk.
>
> Or maybe I was just unlucky in choosing pi. Pity, because that's one of the ones I'm really using in the current project.
>
> Cheers
>
> Graham

I don't think you should worry about styled text.

Just use 0x3co and then set its styles as plain/bold/italic as you wish.

Richmond.