Re; Unicode menu and script characters changing unexpectedly

[Devin Asay]

On Nov 21, 2014, at 5:08 AM, Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com> wrote:

> Just FYI, I just got this from the mother ship. I was under the impression that the system property
> 
> the stackFileVersion
> 
> showed the file format (7.0 or earlier) of the currently open stack. It doesn’t: all it shows is the format that any new stack will have when created in the IDE. To find out what format your stack actually has, I quote Neil Roger who was kindly writing to me about a stack that was puzzling me (see my earlier mails with the above subject line):
> 
>> The easiest way to show this is by opening your stack in a text editor and looking 
>> at the first 8 bytes of data. In the case of your stack, it returns REVO5500. 
>> If the stack was in the 7.0 format, it would be REVO7000.
> 
> When I switched from LC 6.x series to 7.x, I assumed my ‘saves’ would save in the new format. They didn’t. That explains a lot. I suppose everyone else here already knows that you have to do a ‘Save As…’ to get the new format - but just in case…

And don’t forget this setting in Preferences > Files and Memory: /_/ Preserve stack file version on stacks saved in legacy format.

DNA


Devin Asay
Office of Digital Humanities
Brigham Young University