numToChar with socking great numbers

[Phil Davis]

Regarding 7.0 and Unicode... Is it possible that we'll see support for 
RTL text in 7.0? Or maybe 7.x?

Thanks -
Phil Davis


On 1/13/14, 2:24 AM, Fraser Gordon wrote:
> Hi Richmond,
>
> My bad, should have been:
>
> numtoChar(55357) & numToChar(56832)
>
> Note that current versions of LiveCode don't really treat surrogate pairs properly - each codeunit of the pair is treated as a character so it is possible to do things like apply a style that only affects one of the two units. When this happens, the string gets split between the pair and it no longer works properly so be careful.
>
> As I like to harp on about, this will be fixed in 7.0.
>
> Regards,
> Fraser
>
>
> On 13 Jan 2014, at 10:19, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So I did this:
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>    set the useUnicode to true
>>    set the unicodetext of fld "ffff" to numtoChar(55357) + numToChar(56832)
>> end mouseUp
>>
>>
>> and got this:
>>
>> button "Button": execution error at line 3 (Operators +: error in left operand), char 56
>>
>> something obviously not quite right.
>>
>> Richmond.
>>
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Phil Davis