Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

[Richmond]

On 10/01/14 17:29, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Richmond wrote:
>
>> It shouldn't be necessary to ask these questions; ASCII went out with
>> the ark,
>> and in this respect Livecode is seriously backward.
>
> Yes, one might be tempted to think that the folks at RunRev took our 
> three-quarters-of-a-million-dollars and simply went to the beach in 
> the south of France living it up on good Champagne with nary a thought 
> about work.
>
> But it seems what's actually happening is far less glamorous - for a 
> good understand of the scope of their Unicode challenge and the 
> progress they've been making, see this article from their newsletter:
>
> Slaying the Unicode Monster
> http://newsletters.livecode.com/august/issue155/newsletter1.php

Ha, Ha, ha,: charming imagery: and, quite frankly, I think the RunRev 
folk, for their work, probably deserve a good 2 weeks at the seaside.

However, I am not referring to RECENTLY, I am referring to the fact that 
Mac OS 9 and Windows XP were fully Unicode compliant
donkeys' years ago.

Richmond.

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