Russian (UTF-8) in LC 4.6

[Slava Paperno (Bridge)]

Thanks, Mark! It sounds like I should probably wait for full Unicode
support. I'm trying to decide if I can move from Adobe Director to LC. In my
Director applications, I type Cyrillic in the code and message windows all
the time, and the ease of manipulating strings during development is very
important. Always having to read my strings from files or fields would be a
real pain...

Gratefully,

Slava
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-
> bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Mark Schonewille
> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 8:41 PM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Subject: Re: Russian (UTF-8) in LC 4.6
> 
> Hi Slava,
> 
> You can set the label but not the name of button to a unicode string.
> In LiveCode, you always use UTF16. If you have a UTF8 string, you need
> to convert it to UTF16 before you can use it in LiveCode. To convert a
> UTF8 string to UTF16, use the following syntax:
> 
> put uniEncode(myUTF8StringVar,"UTF8") into myUTF16StringVar
> 
> and to convert from UTF16 to UTF8 use
> 
> put uniDecode(myUTF16StringVar,"UTF8") into myUTF8StringVar
> 
> I think that it should be possible to assign a cyrillic string to a
> variable in a script, but it won't be easy. It is easier to keep your
> data in fields or custom properties.
> 
> There might be a LiveCode version that handles unicode text better in
> the future, but if you have to deliver a project anytime soon, I
> wouldn't wait for that new version.
> 
> Btw you can set the unicodeTitle of a stack.
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> 
> Mark Schonewille
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> On 8 mei 2011, at 02:24, Slava Paperno (Bridge) wrote:
> 
> > Is anyone using LC 4.6 for "really foreign" stacks, like Slavic
> languages or
> > Greek, in UTF-8?
> >
> > In my tests of 4.6.1, the Contents box of fields and labels accepts
> Russian
> > fine, and it is displayed correctly, but Russian in a button caption
> or
> > tooltip turns into garbage (actually, it looks like it tries to
> display each
> > byte of the two-byte characters, poor thing). Trying to type Russian
> in the
> > code window totally bombs for me (the effect is indescribable).
> >
> > I'm new to LC, so I may be missing something crucial here. The phrase
> in the
> > User Guide about writing your own functions to process strings sounds
> > ominous, and yet they recommend the use of UTF-8, but again speak
> darkly of
> > "implementing an external" if you wish to use string handling
> functions
> > (section 6.4.6 on UTF-8).
> >
> > Can one even assign a Cyrillic string to a variable in the code
> window?
> >
> > I must be doing something wrong--or should I wait for another version
> of LC?
> >
> > Any tips will be appreciated,
> >
> > Slava