Call for Tutorial Topics

[Elizabeth Dalton]

Another tutorial I think would be helpful (though I don't know how many 
people would use it) would be one on handling Unicode and other 
multibyte formats. Areas would include entering Unicode/multi-byte text 
into fields, copying values between fields and other controls, setting 
labels to Unicode/multi-byte text values, and reading and writing to 
files with Unicode content.

The existing documentation entries are not very helpful -- they give the 
commands, but don't explain which ones you would want to use and why. 
Searching this list isn't much better -- I found partial answers to some 
questions in old threads, but not a good comprehensive look at the 
issues (other than the humorous but unhelpful comment that "The 
inspector is a disaster for Unicode input"). I've been finding my way 
through by trial and error (and fortunately, I know a fair amount about 
how Unicode works). I may be in a position to write this tutorial and an 
example stack after a couple of weeks, as I'm working on Chinese 
language learning software and I'm going to need to be thoroughly 
acquainted with how it all works by the time I'm done.

So if anyone has any other related topics (besides the ones I listed 
above), it would be helpful if you could send them to me.

Regards,

Elizabeth Dalton