best/fastest way to tell if a field contains unicode text?

[Mark Wieder]

Fraser Gordon <fraser.gordon at ...> writes:

> In LiveCode 7.0, all text is Unicode and there is no such thing as
"non-Unicode text". There are ways to
> convert text to and from legacy 8-bit encodings (like MacRoman) when doing
I/O to
> files/sockets/processes/etc but (in the engine at least) all text is Unicode.

Um.

put unidecode("hello bucko")

converts the text to .

(I'm hoping that makes it through the various email filters)... in case it
doesn't,, it's Kanji with an upside-down A in the middle. Running it through
Google presented me with
<http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-TW&u=http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/servlet/DCARead%3FstandardNo%3D0142437174%26standardNoType%3D1%26excerpt%3Dtrue>,
which has the interesting Copyright @ 2002 Mark Twain - I assume the rumors
of his death are once again exagerated.

-- 
 Mark Wieder
 ahsoftware at gmail.com