Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

[Richmond]

On 22/01/14 19:59, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Fraser Gordon wrote:
>
> > Windows, OSX and iOS use UTF-16 in their native APIs. Android is (I
> > believe) UTF-8. Linux is usually UTF-8 but could technically be
> > anything…
> >
> > There are valid reasons for either choice but in the end it shouldn't
> > really matter to anyone who isn't fiddling with the engine source
> > code - it's probably best thinking of the use of UTF-16 as an
> > implementation detail. Any time you do I/O to a file or socket, you
> > should say what encoding you want or else you'll end up with a lossy
> > native encoding.
>
> Thanks for that background, Fraser.
>
> It sounds good - quite exciting, actually.  So I have to ask the 
> uncomfortable question:  do you have an anticipated release date for 
> that version?
>

If ALL text fields are to be Unicode by default will "set the useUnicode 
to true" be redundant, and how will that affect stacks
made on older versions of Livecode running on version 7?

Richmond.