Unicode and chunk expressions

Thomas McGrath III 3mcgrath at adelphia.net
Tue May 17 14:43:22 EDT 2005


Richard,

The consensus was the 'some' chunks could work with useunicode but that 
a lot do not work. It was suggested to use htmltext with the unicode 
fields but I have not tried that yet.

Others have and said they got it to work.

HTH
Tom

On May 17, 2005, at 1:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> I need to dive into Unicode and it seems there are a number of 
> limitations, among these the loss of chunk expressions when working 
> with double-byte languages.  Is that correct?
>
> The app I'm working on for that makes extensive use of chunk 
> expressions -- am I back to the old-school-language methods of walking 
> through every character to parse it?
>
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