numToChar with socking great numbers

Peter W A Wood peterwawood at gmail.com
Tue Jan 14 19:55:22 EST 2014


Richmond

Have you tried displaying the pile of poo in LivecCode using the same font as you are using in Thunderbird? That would be the best evidence of whether LiveCode supports surrogate pairs under Linux or not.

Regards

Peter

On 15 Jan 2014, at 02:41, Richmond wrote:

> On 14/01/14 15:58, Peter W A Wood wrote:
>> Richmond
>> 
>> Are you sure that it's not just a font issue? I believe that Python is
>> installed in a standard Ubuntu distribution so I tried this in Xubuntu:
>> 
>> peter at schulz-xubuntu:~$ python
>> Python 2.7.5+ (default, Sep 19 2013, 13:49:51)
>> [GCC 4.8.1] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>> print u'\U0001F4A9'
>> 💩
>>>>> print u'\U0001D122'
>> 𝄢
>> 
>> As you may see the F clef displayed correctly but the pile of ... didn't.
>> 
>> Peter
> 
> The pile of poo displays perfectly over here, reading my e-mail on Thunderbird in Linux, as
> does the Base clef.
> 
> Musical defaecation, perhaps?
> 
> Well, the Reverend Sydney Smith stated that his idea of heaven was eating Pate de Fois Gras to the sound of trumpets.
> 
> [ a bit tough on the force-fed geese ].
> 
> Richmond.
> 
>> 
>> PS If you view the email under OS X you could well see it.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 14 January 2014 14:09, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 14/01/14 01:52, Alejandro Tejada wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Richmond,
>>>> 
>>>> This is the character you posted:
>>>> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1F600/index.htm
>>>> 
>>>> and this is the unusual character:
>>>> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1F4A9/index.htm
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>  Thanks, Alejandro,
>>> The "problem" is that I would like to be able to display the first, and
>>> any other astral plane Unicode
>>> character in Livecode, and the surrogate-pair system doesn't seem to work
>>> properly.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Richmond.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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