Unicode and Chunks

Dean Snyder dean.snyder at jhu.edu
Mon Sep 29 21:16:00 EDT 2003


Trevor DeVore wrote at 8:12 AM on Monday, September 29, 2003:

>Chunk expressions don't work correctly with unicode text right now 
>though I believe it is being worked on.  You have to write your own 
>chunk handlers for use with  unicode text.  Take a look at the sample 
>stack "Unicode text manipulation examples" at 
><http://runrev.com/Revolution1/developercentral/usercontributions.html> 
>which shows some examples of getting lines in a field, etc.

Yes, but this won't take care of displaying Unicode text properly in
table fields - the columns get all confused by the spurious tabs.

We'll just have to wait for a fix for this.


Respectfully,

Dean A. Snyder
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