Why I insist on my pupils writing properly formed English letters.

[Richmond Mathewson]

Mocked by an operating system, no less.

If I set the font of my field to ANY font other than the one where a 
glyph in position hex 978 exists
then glyph hex 978 is readily supplied; changing over to my own font 
(where a glyph is in place)
  I end up with a square: and this not by LiveCode alone.

On 14/8/2018 9:50 pm, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> Because some people who did not take handwriting very seriously, 
> called the Marwari, started getting their letter 'D' wrong
> to the extent that it eventually began to be treated as a different 
> letter by Indian Colonial Language experts at the end of
> the 19th century and then got plonked into the Unicode standard in a 
> different place from the letter it should have been
> if those slap-dash Marwaris hadn't been a bit uncoordinated with their 
> pens . . .
>
> . . . And now LiveCode 8.1.10 using my Devawriter Pro font which has 
> the Marwari glyph in its correct place (hex 978, decimal 2424)
> seems unable to put anything but a wee box into a field set to my font 
> when I do this:
>
> put numToCodePoint(2424) into fld "ff"
>
> even while it behaves itself perfectly happily with:
>
> put numToCodePoint(2427) into fld "ff"
>
> A while back someone was stating something about LiveCode not being 
> able to cope with post Unicode 10; but as the
> Marwari 'D' was in place at least as early as Unicode 7 I'm not 
> convinced about that.
>
> All this on Macintosh 10.7.5.
>
> In about 10 minutes will transport everything over to Linux and see 
> what goes on there.
>
> Richmond.