Unicode and N with a tilde

Warren Samples warren at warrensweb.us
Fri Dec 31 14:58:28 EST 2010


On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 20:45 +0200, Richmond wrote: 
> On 12/31/2010 08:29 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 18:15 +0200, Richmond wrote:
> >> Oh Gosh, I cannot write the Spanish for 'tomorrow' in Livecode . . .
> >>
> >> doing the following:
> >>
> >> set the useUnicode to true
> >> set the useUnicode of fld "XYZ" to numToChar(241)
> >>
> >> should [ a meaty modal verb if ever there was one ] produce an 'n' with
> >> a tilde
> >> over it; but it doesn't . . .
> >>
> >> . . .just a daft square . . .  :(
> >> _______________________________________________
> >
> >
> >
> > I don't have any trouble here using the special characters required for
> > Spanish, including "ñ", as regular text in Livecode. Does your context
> > require unicode for some other reason?
> 
> http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/dwriterpro.html
> 
> > Warren
> >

Richmond,

  set the useunicode to true
  set the unicodetext of fld "XYZ" to numtochar(241)

Correctly places the ñ in the field for me, as well, here in Linux Mint.
(the snippet you posted has an error in it?)

Warren






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