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

[Geoff Canyon]

Sorry for the delayed response. My point wasn't to start an Apple vs. MS
war, it was simply to illustrate a clear ill that plagues MS non-stop:
overwhelming backwards compatibility. Specifically:

"somebody, somewhere, might be depending on the fact that it interprets the
number modulo 256"

My point is that we will *all* suffer with poor, confusing syntax,
*forever*, so that hypothetical person doesn't have to fix their use of
numToChar.

One of the main advantages of Livecode is the natural syntax. Sacrificing
that to backwards compatibility is a poor trade-off.

gc


On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Curry Kenworthy <curry at pair.com> wrote:

>
> Fraser 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
>>>
>>
> Geoff wrote:
>
>> <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>
>>
>
> ... and the Apple way is also to completely change what's the "right
> thing" while breaking not only compatibility but often their own rules too.
> And that actually seems to keep the fans happy; to each his own. With LC I
> consider both Win and Mac to be a normal and inevitable part of life. Both
> are far from perfect.
>
> But that's beside the point, which is: I believe RunRev truly did the
> right thing in considering both compatibility and future features in this
> release. It was just that - considerate, for all users and for all goals.
> Good job RunRev! Thanks again.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Curry K.
>
>
>
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