Unicode Chinese Mac

[Thomas McGrath III]

I feel like I am reading a foreign language (grin) dealing with 
unicode. I would like to know what Unicode does work with. line, item, 
word, foundchunk, filter, find, etc.

Thanks

Tom

On May 10, 2005, at 1:24 PM, pkc wrote:

> Hello Thomas, here is my strategy, which on the basis of my experience 
> so far I believe won't render all correct characters on Windows. But, 
> see what you can make of it.
>
> This is the critical part of the script:
>
> put the number of words in fld "chinese" into charCount
>   put 1 into lineCount
>
>   repeat
>     find string "= " in fld "window"
>      if the result is "not found" then exit repeat
>     put the foundChunk into thisInsert
>     put (word lineCount of fld "chinese") into the foundChunk
>     set the textFont of thisInsert to "Taipei,Chinese"
>     add 1 to lineCount
>   end repeat
>
> I suppose it is self-explanatory.  The field "chinese" contains a 
> series of characters, one on each line, that are fed in order into the 
> English text.  I tried various markers, but for some reason this one 
> (not very intuitive) works best.
>
> I found by trial and error that not using a variable like "thisInsert" 
> and just relying on floating foundChunks produced a lot of errors. 
> With this script, I have NO errors on the Macintosh that cannot be 
> traced to Unicode ambiguities.  However, in Windows there is more junk 
> than sense in the characters.  I still think that Windows is picking 
> up the carriage returns in the "chinese" source file and feeding them 
> into the English file, which with the font change at the foundChunk 
> renders a lot of nonsense. I don't know how to get the program to stop 
> it.
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