best/fastest way to tell if a field contains unicode text?

Geoff Canyon gcanyon at gmail.com
Fri Mar 21 10:08:51 EDT 2014


On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Fraser Gordon <fraser.gordon at runrev.com>wrote:

> That's the reason behind most of the functions we've marked as deprecated
> in 7.0 - upgrading them to support Unicode would break existing stacks in
> subtle ways (e.g. numToChar - somebody, somewhere, might be depending on
> the fact that it interprets the number modulo 256. Plus, it takes the
> native encoding rather than Unicode codepoints).


<blunt>That's the Microsoft way to handle this. The Apple way would simply
be to do the right thing -- if you want to be nice, issue a note that
backwards compatibility is being broken and specify how and the
reasons.</blunt>



More information about the use-livecode mailing list