Adventures in Unicode

[Slava Paperno]

Richmond,

Why don't you switch to using revBrowser to do all your text display, font
resizing, and font-family changes? Works like a clock... and you don't have
to hold your breath. (But there's no revBrowser for mobiles.)

Slava

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-
> bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Richmond Mathewson
> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 3:03 PM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Subject: Adventures in Unicode
> 
> possibly subtitled "Wading through treacle".
> 
> My 'eternal' Devawriter didn't display glyphs properly once they were
> entered via a slightly mephistophelian process into the OUTPUT field,
> and at least one of my beta-testers was getting quite crochety about it
> (mainly as I had had no epiphanies of late). Then, flashes of slightly
> murky light, and it occurred to me that upping the textSize of the
> output field,
> and then setting it down by one again . . . take a deep breath, you
> know
> Richmond is daft . . . and then, of course, one has to shift the
> unicodeText out
> of the field while it is resized and then return it . . .
> 
> But; it worketh . . .
> 
> follow me closely:
> 
> set the useUnicode to true
>    set the unicodeText of the fld "HOLDER" to the unicodeText of fld
> "OUTPUT"
> put the textSize of fld "OUTPUT" into BIGGY
> put BIGGY + 1 into BIGGGY
> set the textSize of fld " OUTPUT" to BIGGGY
> put empty into fld "OUTPUT"
> set the unicodeText of the fld "OUTPUT" to the unicodeText of fld
> "HOLDER"
> put empty into fld "HOLDER"
> set the unicodeText of the fld "HOLDER" to the unicodeText of fld
> "OUTPUT"
> set the textSize of fld " OUTPUT" to BIGGY
> put empty into fld "OUTPUT"
> set the unicodeText of the fld "OUTPUT" to the unicodeText of fld
> "HOLDER"
> put empty into fld "HOLDER"
> select after fld "OUTPUT"
> 
> this is just about as clunky as one gets, but it seems the only way in
> which one can ensure unicodeText is represented properly.
> 
> and, before you mention it:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noddy_Holder
> 
> I'm off to the funny-farm for a quick frontal lobotomy after that one
> (which took me about a year to come round to).
> 
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