Still struggling with Unicode

[Graham Samuel]

Glad about the food. Not to flog a dead horse much longer, but what I'm worried about is not any styling I might or might not choose to add, but the problem of people pasting in (via the clipboard) versions of pi which are not expressed by 0x3C0. I think the only solution is to search the enormous Unicode universe for all likely variants, and convert them on input to the said 0x3C0. Ah well.

Cheers

Graham

On 31 Aug 2014, at 15:13, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 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.
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