OT-ish warning: Apple is still using Mac Roman

[Graham Samuel]

Well, this horse is nearly dead, but perhaps a tiny bit more flogging might be of assistance.

I have done a few more experiments, and strange as it may seem, they kind of work. If for example you use Pages to write a string containing some well-known Mac Roman 'specials', say pi, square root sign, divide, less than or equal to, greater than or equal to, and copy that string to the Mac clipboard, if you then go to the PC side of things (I'm using Parallels to do this) and paste into NotePad or indeed a LiveCode field, you see the same glyphs. What I am not entirely sure of is whether all these actually have the same encoding as they did on the Mac, so more research needed, but at least they **look** the same. I could have sworn that when I tried this yesterday it didn't work, but there you are. So there is some hope for cross-platform text manipulation after all.

Still faintly puzzled.

Graham

On 30 Jan 2014, at 15:23, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Things look pretty negative about Pages:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pages_%28word_processor%29
> 
> "As of November 2012, Pages does not support OpenDocument file format. The only known software other than Pages which can open its files is the Google Docs Viewer.[11] It can view the files, and save them as PDF via the Print function, but not edit them.
> 
> While there is no program that can view or edit a .pages file using Windows or Linux, some content can be retrieved from a document created in Pages '09, because a .pages file is actually a bundle."
> 
> So, even more closed-shop than MSW.
> 
> This does not entirely surprise me, as Apple, having spent years on anti-Microsoft propaganda, a lot based in the lack of interoperability
> between Macintosh and Windows, have been, recently, doing their damndest to make the bi-planetary Mac OS - iOS system into a walled
> garden.
> 
> Richmond.
> 
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