Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2015-05-11 10:34, Richmond wrote:
> I'm not entirely sure what "seamless" means . . . but
> 
> if I open a stack authored in LC 4.5 where I have script lines like 
> this:
> 
> set the unicodeText of fld "TEKST" to numToChar(12345)
> 
> things don't work.

Which was why I qualified what I said with the term 'initimate text 
processing' - which Devawriter certainly does as it builds up Unicode 
strings out of component codepoint parts rather than just manipulating 
characters and other chunks.

In this case I tried:

set the useUnicode to true
set the unicodeText of fld "TEKST" to numToChar(12345)

And it seemed to work in 7...

In 5.5 we changed the meaning of the 'char' chunk in a field so that you 
didn't have to mess around with bytes when dealing with Unicode - I 
suspect this is probably a big part of why Devawriter doesn't port 
forward to 7, rather than 7 itself.

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