Unicode inconsistency

Brian Milby brian at milby7.com
Fri Mar 9 15:36:06 EST 2018


Is it a font issue? I get an empty box on Win10 and a box with a ? inside
on my Mac. Had to go to fileformat.info to see what it should look like.
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 1:49 PM Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> When I do this:
>
> put numToCodePoint(0xA8FD)  [Jain Omkara]
>
> I get the symbol in the Message Box.
>
> HOWEVER when I do this:
>
> put numToCodePoint(0xA8FD) into fld "gg"
>
> I get a "silly square: in fld "gg"
>
> For those of us who are "kinky" about symbols such as the Jain OM this
> is "most unfortunate".
>
> Richmond.
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