Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

[Lynn Fredricks]

> Unicode - DONE

Im glad Paul pointed this out; its been taking some hits from people who say
they don't need it, and that its impacting performance.

It is a necessity for the future of LiveCode or any development environment
for that matter.

LiveCode and its predecessors have always been good at language handling
tasks, so long as your project only needed to work, at best, with extended
ASCII characters. This limitation pretty much excluded it from being used by
developers who needed multibyte character handling for their small scale
projects (pretty much all indie type developers throughout Asia), as well as
international businesses that have applications that must work across
multiple languages.

It is a feature that goes down to the lowest level of implementation and
touches everything (and those types of fixes are really, really hard to
estimate as to difficulty). Not having it was a showstopper for a lot of
development, yet it benefits just about everyone - long time users as well
as making LiveCode viable to a lot of new developers.

Best regards,

Lynn Fredricks
President
Paradigma Software
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

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