Byte order in unicode button labels

[Devin Asay]

On May 8, 2006, at 1:24 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

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> On May 5, 2006, at 12:47 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
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>> I am writing an app with button labels in a non-Latin script  
>> (Cyrillic). Under certain conditions I need to change the label of  
>> these buttons. To do so I store the unicode text of the different  
>> label names in custom properties. But I just discovered that the  
>> byte order is swapped between Win and Mac (okay, I'm slow.) I can  
>> just store custom props with the different label variants for both  
>> mac and win, but that would be an inelegant kludge. Is there a way  
>> to reverse the byte order of unicode strings in Rev?
>
> You might want to vote for enhancement 2825 that adds UTF-16BE and  
> UTF-16LE to the uniEncode and uniDecode options.  This would allow  
> you to store your favorite, say UTF-16BE, in your properties and  
> then convert to host-order UTF-16 for unicodeText.  This might be a  
> bit faster than storing UTF-8 in the property and then converting.

Great request. I've added my votes.

devin