Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

Graham Samuel livfoss at mac.com
Wed Jan 22 13:41:01 EST 2014


Richmond, thanks for inching my problem towards a solution. I downloaded your test. Clever, in fact too clever for me. I don't understand why the test works. Would you care to explain?

Incidentally, I found the following instructive when using your handler:

1. I found some genuine Unicode text (it was from the Wikipedia entry dedicated to Unicode), pasted it in to your handler and got a correct report that it was Unicode.

2. Then I copied some text from an ordinary LC field that I happened to have on the screen, and pasted it into your handler after the already identified Unicode text: the whole text was identified as Unicode.

3. When I cleared out the handler's entry field and just pasted my field text, the test said it wasn't Unicode.

From which I conclude that if I put just one innocent Unicode character (let's say space) into my field before allowing people to paste into it, whatever gets pasted will be seen by LC as Unicode - mission accomplished! Of course I'm going to test this some more...

Graham


On 22 Jan 2014, at 18:18, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just belted off a stack that WILL tell you if a textField contains
> Unicode text or not; it's here:
> 
> http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=18869
> 
> Love, Richmond.
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