Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

[Richmond]

On 11/05/15 12:50, Mark Waddingham wrote:
> 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.
>

Possibly. I have to find time to work that one out.

Thanks.

Richmond.