Umlaut--Success!

[Signe.Sanne at roman.uib.no]

Hello Devin,
Nor did it work on Mac 10.4 and Revolution 2.6. I've spent half a day making
images with n+umlaut for textsize 14 and 16 in ordinary colour and in my
selection colour. Thanks all the same.
Signe Marie

> Signe,
> 
> You can still do it without one of these methods. Let's take your  
> case as an example. Say you have a field "poundfield" that contains  
> your text with # for each n-umlaut. Now create another field, say  
> field "result", and set its textFont to a unicode font as in #1 of my  
> first post, below. Now create a button with the following script:
> 
> on mouseUp
>    get fld "poundfld"
>    replace "#" with "nÃà" in it
>    set the unicodeText of fld "result" to uniencode(it,"UTF8")
> end mouseUp
> 
> Barring any automatic Mac to PC character substitutions (by Rev or by  
> your mail client,) this should result in the #'s in your poundfield  
> being replaced by the character you want. If it doesn't work as  
> posted here, the three characters in the 'with' part of the replace  
> statement are ASCII-110 ASCII-204 ASCII-136. So you could generate  
> them reliably by doing this:
> 
> on mouseUp
>    get fld "poundfld"
>    put numToChar(110) & numToChar(204) & numToChar(136) into tChars
>    replace "#" with tChars in it
>    set the unicodeText of fld "result" to uniencode(it,"UTF8")
> end mouseUp
> 
> Hope this saves you from a kludge. ;-)
> 
> Devin
> 
> On Mar 1, 2007, at 1:38 AM, Signe Marie Sanne wrote:
> 
> > Hello Devin,
> >
> > I'm afraid none of the methods can be used. I have lots of texts in  
> > which I use "#" for the n with umlaut. These will be fed into  
> > fields on the fly appearing with the correct letter instead of the  
> > "#". So far I have used images for various text sizes which work  
> > reasonably well. My problem arose when I wanted to select a line in  
> > the text, then having to change the colour of the image as well. So  
> > I think I'll stick to the images, just double the sets of images  
> > with selection colours as well.  Thanks for all the help from you  
> > and Mark.
> >
> > Signe Marie Sanne
> >
> > Den 28. feb. 2007 kl. 18:57 skrev Devin Asay:
> >>  You *can* do this in Rev. Here's how I did it in OS X (I'm using  
> >> rev 2.8 in OSX 10.4.8):
> >>
> >> 1. Create a field and set its textfont to a unicode font:
> >>   set the textFont of fld "unistuff" to "Verdana,unicode"
> >>
> >> 2. Enable the Unicode Hex Input method in the International system  
> >> prefs under the input tab. This will cause the Unicode Hex Input  
> >> method to appear in the input menu (the one with the little flags  
> >> on the right side of the menubar.)
> >>
> >> 3. Position the insert cursor in the field, choose Unicode Hex  
> >> Input from the input menu, then type :
> >>   n (then, holding alt/option key down) 0308
> >>
> >>   the n with umlaut should appear.
> >>
> >> Sorry, don't know how to do this via direct input in Windows.  
> >> However, the following should work on either OS:
> >>
> >> 1. Create a UTF-8 encoded text file that includes the desired  
> >> character. I used BBedit, making sure I chose a font that  
> >> supported unicode (Tahoma or Lucida Grande should work) and that  
> >> the document encoding was set to UTF-8, then created the n-umlaut  
> >> character just as I described in #3 above.
> >>
> >> 2. Save the file to disk.
> >>
> >> 3. Read it in to your rev fld using the uniencode() function.
> >>
> >> I've created a stack that shows how to do this.
> >>
> >> go stack url "http://revolution.byu.edu/unicode/testUnicode.rev"
> >>
> >> You may also want to download the utf-8 file from http:// 
> >> revolution.byu.edu/unicode/textUni.ut8. This is the file that the  
> >> sample stack reads from.
> 
> 
> Devin Asay
> Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
> Brigham Young University
> 
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