Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

2017-03-30 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-03-29 22:26, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: One anomaly that appears to be generated by LC 9dp5 running on Sierra 10.12.3: Code point U803 maps in the Unicode standard to the Extended Latin "H with dot underneath" character. Just to check, I take it you mean 'h'

Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

2017-03-30 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-03-28 13:20, Richmond via use-livecode wrote: I'd point out that TenFourFox is a fork of FireFox and is not a Mozilla project. Is that a point that anyone who is prepared to go on running a PPC Mac should be worried about? They probably won't be - until the project ceases to be

Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

2017-03-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Two mangos on these issues from Hawaii. As one of the users of Richmond's program: He and I have been 'at it" for nearly 8 year with his DevaWrite Pro, because the "state of the art" for rendering Sanskrit in the world of fonts is pretty abysmal with respect to some small but mission critical

Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

2017-03-28 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
What is an LC 475? Do you mean an Apple Performa? Bob S > On Mar 28, 2017, at 10:41 , Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode > wrote: > > LC 475 running system 7.1. ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

2017-03-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
I came to the Macintosh party late (even if the kilt I wear is always Hunting Macintosh, from my Grandfather Richmond McIntosh) in 1993 with an LC 475 running system 7.1. Richmond On 3/28/17 6:05 pm, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote: On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 2:17 AM, Mark Waddingham via

Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

2017-03-28 Thread Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 2:17 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Not necessarily - I believe system 7.5 was pretty advanced when it came to > text and fonts. Introduced in 7.0. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

2017-03-28 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
On 28/03/17 12:17, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2017-03-28 10:30, Richmond via use-livecode wrote: In 1996 I bought a copy of Fontographer, having previously developed several bitmap fonts for Macintosh with Fontastic (for Anglo-Saxon and Old Slavic). At that time (1996) it was

Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

2017-03-28 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-03-28 10:30, Richmond via use-livecode wrote: In 1996 I bought a copy of Fontographer, having previously developed several bitmap fonts for Macintosh with Fontastic (for Anglo-Saxon and Old Slavic). At that time (1996) it was possible to use Fontographer to make fonts with about 4000

Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

2017-03-28 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
In 1996 I bought a copy of Fontographer, having previously developed several bitmap fonts for Macintosh with Fontastic (for Anglo-Saxon and Old Slavic). At that time (1996) it was possible to use Fontographer to make fonts with about 4000 characters which one could access through Mac Keyboard

Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

2017-03-28 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-03-27 14:39, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: In regards to your specific requirements, I had a thought on that last night. I think essentially what you want is a way to treat a sequence of codepoints in a field as a sequence of glyph indicies into the current font. So rather than

Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

2017-03-27 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-03-27 13:56, Richmond via use-livecode wrote: "UnicodeChecker is being developed using the Objective-C programming language with the standard macOS developer tools, i.e. Xcode and the Cocoa frameworks. The display of Unicode characters uses the default system facilities of macOS. So

Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

2017-03-27 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
Here is an interesting extract from the reply I got from the maker of Unicode Checker: "UnicodeChecker is being developed using the Objective-C programming language with the standard macOS developer tools, i.e. Xcode and the Cocoa frameworks. The display of Unicode characters uses the default

Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

2017-03-27 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-03-26 17:48, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: Interestingly enough this FREE program for Macintosh: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/9752/unicodechecker Very successfully displays glyphs I have built into my Devawriter.ttf font in comformance with the Unicode version 10 Beta

Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

2017-03-26 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
Interestingly enough this FREE program for Macintosh: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/9752/unicodechecker Very successfully displays glyphs I have built into my Devawriter.ttf font in comformance with the Unicode version 10 Beta specification. This all on my supposedly outmoded system