Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

[Geoff Canyon]

Apart from the basics like ñ and é, how do you enter non-ascii characters
on iOS? Do iPhones in Russia display a different keyboard by default? How
about asian countries where the character set is hundreds or thousands of
images?

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Trevor DeVore <lists at mangomultimedia.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Again, maybe I'm unusual, but none of these apply to any of the apps I've
> > ever written. I've done consulting work (oh so long ago) on apps that
> > stored people's names, and likely unicode comes in handy for those, but I
> > haven't asked the authors whether they take advantage of it.
> >
> > I'm not arguing against unicode, since I really don't know. The
> impression
> > I get is that there has been a huge opportunity cost of implementing it,
> > and on the list I've seen far more people complain about it than praise
> it.
>
>
> I really like the changes in LC 7 with regards to unicode. I am glad to
> (almost) be done with worrying about user input and user file names. I
> don't localize my software but I have people writing content in my software
> in Greek, Russian, Chinese, etc. The are also trying to open files that
> have unicode in the path names. I'm upgrading my products to use LC 8
> (started in LC7) and will be very happy when I don't have to answer
> questions about why my software can't open certain files or can't be
> installed in a folder with a unicode character in the path name.
>
> My experience is that if you write an application for the general public
> that allows text input or needs to open files named by the user, then there
> is a high probability that you will run into unicode issues if your
> software doesn't have support for it. Not having proper unicode support is
> something I would eventually leave a development platform over.
>
> --
> Trevor DeVore
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