Unicode 0x1cf6 and so on

[Richmond Mathewson]

NOPE: this would seem to be a LiveCode-specific problem as I just 
entered those 3 characters
(which are present in my Devawriter.ttf) font into a LibreOffice Writer 
document (Mac OS) without
a backward glance.

Bug 19471

Richmond.

On 3/25/17 5:35 pm, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> I have a "funny feeling" this is some problem with kerning rules for 
> the characters
> 1CF5, 1CF6 and 1CF7 only.
>
> On 3/25/17 4:54 pm, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
>> It seems impossible to do this:
>>
>> put numToCodepoint(0x1cf7) into fld "fff" (LC 8.1.3)
>>
>> all one gets is a horrible little square (which one should not):
>>
>> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-10.0/U100-1CD0.pdf
>>
>> if one does this sort of thing:
>>
>> put numToCodepoint(0x1cf7) & numToCodepoint(123) into fld "fff"
>>
>> one gets the desired char followed by the second one (in this case, 
>> curly bracket)
>>
>> trying this:
>>
>> put numToCodepoint(7415) into fld "fff"  is no better.
>>
>> Is this:
>>
>> 1. a Richmond problem?
>>
>> 2. a LiveCode problem?
>>
>> 3. a Unicode problem?
>>
>> Richmond.
>